Enrollment by Grade Level

Student enrollment counts by grade (K-12) for each Georgia school, district, and the state, per Fall/Spring snapshot, 2011-2024.

Source: Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA)
Year coverage: 2011–2024
Updated: annual
Version: 1.0.0
Schema hash: 0a3f9211501c

Detail levels available

StateDistrictSchool · default

Overview

Student enrollment counts by grade level for every Georgia public school, school district, and the state, published by GOSA for school years 2010-11 through 2023-24. Each row is the total number of students enrolled in one grade (K through 12) at one entity in one enrollment-snapshot period — GaDOE counts enrollment twice per school year (Fall and Spring collection cycles), and both snapshots are preserved as distinct rows. There is no demographic breakdown: every row is a total count for its (year, geography, period, grade) cell.

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	Ending calendar year of the school year (2024 = 2023-24). Parsed from the bronze LONG_SCHOOL_YEAR and cross-checked against the filename year. Full description▾ Ending calendar year of the school year (2024 = 2023-24). Parsed from the bronze LONG_SCHOOL_YEAR and cross-checked against the filename year.
`district_code`District Code	string	—	—	yes	GOSA district code (FK to districts dimension): 3-character zero-padded code for standard county/city districts, or 7-character code for state-charter (782 prefix), commission-charter (783 prefix), and state school (799 prefix) entities — 7-character codes appear in every year 2011-2024. NULL on state-level aggregate rows (bronze sentinel 'ALL'). Full description▾ GOSA district code (FK to districts dimension): 3-character zero-padded code for standard county/city districts, or 7-character code for state-charter (782 prefix), commission-charter (783 prefix), and state school (799 prefix) entities — 7-character codes appear in every year 2011-2024. NULL on state-level aggregate rows (bronze sentinel 'ALL'). Joins districts; adds its label columns.
`school_code`School Code	string	—	—	yes	4-character zero-padded GOSA school code (composite FK to schools dimension with district_code; school codes are not globally unique on their own). NULL on district- and state-level aggregate rows (bronze sentinel 'ALL'). Full description▾ 4-character zero-padded GOSA school code (composite FK to schools dimension with district_code; school codes are not globally unique on their own). NULL on district- and state-level aggregate rows (bronze sentinel 'ALL'). 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' (October collection) or 'spring' (March collection). 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 of the students counted: 'k' for kindergarten, '01'-'12' for grades 1-12; no pre-K or all-grades row. Full description▾ Grade level of the students counted: 'k' for kindergarten, '01' through '12' for grades 1-12 (canonical zero-padded codes per the shared grade vocabulary). This source publishes no pre-K row and no cross-grade aggregate row, so 'pk' and 'all' never appear. Bronze spellings were K and 1st..12th. 13 allowed values▾ `01` `02` `03` `04` `05` `06` `07` `08` `09` `10` `11` `12` `k`
`num_students`Number Students	integer	count	—	yes	Number of students enrolled in this grade and period at this entity. Full description▾ Number of students enrolled in this grade and period at this entity. Three source regimes govern 0 vs NULL: (1) 2011-2020 — no suppression; an explicit 0 is a true zero (grade not served) and is preserved; (2) 2021-2022 — the source replaces both true zeros and counts 1-9 with 'TFS' (Too Few Students), stored as NULL here; (3) 2023-2024 — TFS suppression continues AND rows for non-applicable grade x entity combinations are no longer emitted, roughly halving the row count per year.

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	13 allowed values▾ `01` `02` `03` `04` `05` `06` `07` `08` `09` `10` `11` `12` `k`	multi-value, enum-enforced, pick one
`district_type`	dimension_attribute	7 allowed values▾ `commission_charter` `resa` `standard` `state_agency` `state_charter` `state_school` `state_special`	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_level"

schools data for 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/enrollment_by_grade_level?year=2024"

Filtered to enrollment_period = fall for 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/enrollment_by_grade_level?year=2024&enrollment_period=fall"

One district (code 601), 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/enrollment_by_grade_level?district_code=601&year=2024&detail=districts"

Download 2024 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/enrollment_by_grade_level?year=2024&format=csv"

Notes & limitations

NULL handling

Suppressed cells (too few students to report) are NULL, never zero.
Zero is a real, reported value.

Limitations

Suppressed cells are NULL (not zero). State rows have NULL district_code and school_code. District rows have NULL school_code. State and district rows are independently published GOSA aggregates and may differ from the sum of their component rows by up to ~0.02% (e.g., students enrolled in more than one district during a collection period); do not treat component sums as exact reconciliations.