PUBLIC-RECORD DATA. Real organization name, phone & address from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD). The contact-name, title, email & web-domain columns are empty disclosed seams — the source does not publish them and they are never fabricated. Scope is the Education (K-12) layer of SLED.
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US SLED Contact Directory — Education layer

Release Notes

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Release Notes — v1.0.0

US SLED Contact Directory (Education layer)

First release. A public-record contact directory of every US public school district / local education agency, grouped by state.

Included

  • 19,453 organizations across all 50 states + DC (one HTTP 200 source

request per jurisdiction).

  • Real fields per record: organization name, type, phone (100% coverage),

street/city/ZIP/county, enrollment, school count, NCES leaid.

  • Full provenance: source URL, HTTP status, sha256, and timestamp per jurisdiction;

whole-dataset sha256; retained raw responses for two sample states.

  • Outputs: whole-file CSV + JSON, per-state files, a self-contained browsable site.
  • Verification: 17/17 deterministic checks, including a no-fabrication assertion.

Deliberately deferred (disclosed seams)

  • contactName, contactTitle, email, domain — not published by the source;

left empty, never invented.

  • State / local government and higher-ed layers of SLED (planned v2 via IPEDS,

Census Census-of-Governments, SAM.gov).

Source

NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) LEA Directory, school year 2023, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal.

Status

Certification state, Evidence Grade, and Trust Score are assigned by the Forge Proof Layer — see proof/PROOF_DECISION.json.