I am looking to get a complete list of the public/private 4 year and
junior colleges, high schools and middles schools in the United
States.  We would prefer this data to be easily dumped into a DB.  CSV
format would be fine to deliver it in.  We are willing to pay for a
complete list, but at this time cannot find a resource who sells these
lists.  A website like classmates.com or reunion.com are a good
example of sites that have all the schools.

We mainly just need the name of the school, city, state, zip.  Also a
URL for the school if its available would be nice.

I had submitted another post which actually got closed unfortunately,
but here is a link to it which you can see some of conversations that
were started.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=745843

Hello Abemccallum,


You will find the data requested ( US Colleges, High Schools and
Middle Schools ) in five files in  EXCEL format at the link below.
http://esnips.com/web/bobbieseven-GoogleAnswers

Download the following files:
 
Colleges.xls
Public High.xls
Public Middle.xls
Private High.xls
Private Middle.xls

These files will remain on the server for a limited period, so please
download them as soon as possible.
http://esnips.com/web/bobbieseven-GoogleAnswers



Sources of information:

National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/index.asp

Instructions for csv file
Click Guest Level
Click on usage agreement
Click on link to  access the Dataset Cutting Tool.
Click on link ?Download data files?   
On the next page choose 2004 and ?Display All? and click on ?GET?
Download the file:     HD2004_STATA
Download dictionary for explanation

Or download complete dataset from here:
http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/dct/download/index.asp?Year=2004&Survey=1
Direct link
http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/dct/download/data/hd2004.zip
Dictionary
http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/dct/download/data/HD2004_Dict.zip


Middle and High School Data 

NCES
National Center for Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/
START HERE:
http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/index.asp



I hope the information provided is helpful!

Best regards, 
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 24 Aug 2006 14:53 PDT

Abemccallum,

Please download a revised copy of the private middle school listing here:
http://esnips.com/web/bobbieseven-GoogleAnswers
Name of file 
Middle Private Final.xls


Source of public and private school information:
Institute of Education Sciences 
U.S. Department of Education
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/
http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/