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IDSCU — International Database of Schools, Colleges and Universities

IDSCU

Datasets

The current directory contains 111,142 records: 96,891 K–12 schools and 14,251 postsecondary institutions.

Current release

Release ID
20260908T071051Z
Published data timestamp
2026-09-08
K–12 source SHA-256
149fd75bc7552731ac5e68f49d36b9141562d8945aedb22c82d1d2bb3d69a727
Postsecondary source SHA-256
5ed38549a37692e3bd6f05221fad36e1a09879c7c489a7c739c439805867750f
Download K–12 JSON (gzip)Download postsecondary JSON (gzip)Release manifestVerification report

Separation guarantee

Each package has its own schema, release count and source checksum. The unified search index contains only a typed projection and cannot overwrite either source database.