Enrollment by Grade Level (Fall and Spring)

Public school student headcounts by grade level (PK-12) from the October (fall) and March (spring) FTE counts, per school, district, and state, 2010-2026.

Source: Georgia Insights (GaDOE)
Year coverage: 2010–2026
Updated: annual
Version: 1.1.0
Schema hash: 78fcbea4c8f1

Detail levels available

StateDistrictSchool · default

Overview

Georgia Insights (GaDOE) FTE Enrollment by Grade Level(PK-12) — the FTE headcount of Georgia public school students broken out by grade level (pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, grades 1-12, plus an 'all' total row) for every school, district, and the state. GaDOE counts enrollment twice per school year: the October Cycle 1 (fall) snapshot and the March Cycle 3 (spring) snapshot; both are preserved as distinct rows via the enrollment_period column. Both the fall and spring halves span fiscal years 2010-2026. Grade is the row axis and lives in grade_level — there are no demographic breakouts in this topic.

Row grain: One row per year, district_code, school_code, enrollment_period, grade_level.

Key metric

num_students — Number Students (count)

The single headline value most answers want.

JSON schema →Data contract (YAML) →

Variables

Every column in the fact table. The code is the exact field name the API returns.

Column	Type	Unit	Range	Null?	Description
`year`Year	integer	—	—	no	Fiscal year of the FTE count (school year ending in this year; e.g. 2026 = the 2025-2026 school year). Sourced from the bronze filename, cross-checked against each file's preamble. Both the fall (October) and spring (March) snapshots are present for every year 2010-2026. Full description▾ Fiscal year of the FTE count (school year ending in this year; e.g. 2026 = the 2025-2026 school year). Sourced from the bronze filename, cross-checked against each file's preamble. Both the fall (October) and spring (March) snapshots are present for every year 2010-2026.
`district_code`District Code	string	—	—	yes	3-digit GOSA district code (zero-padded) for standard districts; 7-digit code for state charters and specialty schools, including the pseudo-districts 7991893/7991894/7991895 for the three state schools (Atlanta Area School for the Deaf, Georgia Academy for the Blind, Georgia School for the Deaf) in spring 2011-2019 and fall 2012-2019, and together under district 799 in other years, so a trend for the state schools must add the three pseudo-districts together in 2011-2019. NULL for state-level rows. FK to districts dimension. Full description▾ 3-digit GOSA district code (zero-padded) for standard districts; 7-digit code for state charters and specialty schools, including the pseudo-districts 7991893/7991894/7991895 for the three state schools (Atlanta Area School for the Deaf, Georgia Academy for the Blind, Georgia School for the Deaf) in spring 2011-2019 and fall 2012-2019, and together under district 799 in other years, so a trend for the state schools must add the three pseudo-districts together in 2011-2019. NULL for state-level rows. FK to districts dimension. Joins districts; adds its label columns.
`school_code`School Code	string	—	—	yes	4-digit GOSA school code, extracted from the bronze `SChool Name` (`NNNN-Name`) prefix. NULL for state- and district-level rows. FK to schools dimension (composite key with district_code). Full description▾ 4-digit GOSA school code, extracted from the bronze `SChool Name` (`NNNN-Name`) prefix. NULL for state- and district-level rows. FK to schools dimension (composite key with district_code). Joins schools; adds its label columns.
`enrollment_period`Enrollment Period	string	—	—	no	Enrollment snapshot within the school year: fall (October) or spring (March); never sum across them. Full description▾ Enrollment-count snapshot within the school year: 'fall' (GaDOE October Cycle 1 count, first Tuesday of October) or 'spring' (March Cycle 3 count, taken in the first week of March - the first Thursday in most years, per the bronze preamble captions). Both snapshots exist for nearly every entity — queries wanting one headline count per year must filter to a single period, never sum across them. 2 allowed values▾ `fall` `spring`
`grade_level`Grade Level	string	—	—	no	Grade: `pk`, `k`, `01`-`12`, or `all` for the entity total (sum of the 14 grade rows). Full description▾ Canonical grade code per data-cleaning-standards section 16: 'pk' (pre-kindergarten), 'k' (kindergarten), zero-padded '01'..'12', and 'all' for the entity's pre-aggregated total row (the bronze `Total` column, which equals the sum of the 14 grade rows bit-exact), so leave 'all' out when adding grades together. 15 allowed values▾ `01` `02` `03` `04` `05` `06` `07` `08` `09` `10` `11` `12` `all — total / aggregate` `k` `pk`
`num_students`Number Students	integer	count	—	no	FTE student headcount for the grade cell; never suppressed, so a 0 means the grade is not offered. Full description▾ FTE student headcount for the (year, geography, period, grade) cell. Raw count, not scaled. Never NULL — this source publishes no suppression markers — and a 0 is a real reported value (the grade is not offered at the entity). For grade_level='all', equals the sum of the entity's 14 grade rows in that period.

Filters

Query parameters the fact endpoint accepts. Comma-separated values are OR within a parameter; multiple parameters AND together.

Parameter	Kind	Allowed values	Notes
`year`	year_exact	any value	—
`year_min`	year_range	any value	—
`year_max`	year_range	any value	—
`detail`	detail	`districtsschoolsstates`	enum-enforced, default: schools
`district_code`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`school_code`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`enrollment_period`	categorical	`fallspring`	multi-value, enum-enforced, pick one
`grade_level`	categorical	15 allowed values▾ `01` `02` `03` `04` `05` `06` `07` `08` `09` `10` `11` `12` `all` `k` `pk`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`district_type`	dimension_attribute	7 allowed values▾ `commission_charter` `resa` `standard` `state_agency` `state_charter` `state_school` `state_special`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`school_level`	dimension_attribute	`elementarymiddlehighk12other`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`locale`	dimension_attribute	`citysuburbtownrural`	multi-value, enum-enforced

Example requests

Run these against the base URL — they return live data.

All rows (first page), schools level

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/enrollment_by_grade"

schools data for 2026

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/enrollment_by_grade?year=2026"

Filtered to enrollment_period = fall for 2026

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/enrollment_by_grade?year=2026&enrollment_period=fall"

One district (code 601), 2026

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/enrollment_by_grade?district_code=601&year=2026&detail=districts"

Download 2026 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/enrollment_by_grade?year=2026&format=csv"

Notes & limitations

NULL handling

Zero is a real, reported value.

Limitations

This source has no suppression; a 0 is a real reported value. State rows have NULL district_code and school_code. District rows have NULL school_code.