CRDC — Civil Rights Data Collection
Published by U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights· biennial
Biennial federal survey of every K-12 public school covering discipline, civil rights, safety incidents, and demographic equity metrics.
In Detail
The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is conducted every two years by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. Every public K-12 school reports detailed discipline data (suspensions, expulsions, in-school arrests, referrals to law enforcement), bullying and harassment allegations, and safety incidents (firearm-related events, homicide-related events). The data is broken down by race, gender, English-learner status, and disability — making CRDC the primary source for measuring disparate impact in school discipline. ValiFit displays per-school CRDC data on /schools/[nces_id] pages without ranking or scoring it (FHA-safe approach), and surfaces firearm/homicide indicators as warnings on property pages whose catchment district contains affected schools.
Primary Federal Source
https://ocrdata.ed.gov/ValiFit re-publishes and explains this federal data. The official source is the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
How ValiFit uses CRDC
- School page discipline display
- Property page school safety warnings
- District-level firearm/homicide indicators