Education is the birthright of every child. Personally, I completely agree with that saying. It is our rights, and the children afterus’ rights, to get a decent, if not the best, education one can get. That’s why, finding a school is ever so important for us, parents, so that we can be sure that our kids get the best out there. Finding informations on schools, however, is not as easy as it sounds. A lot needs to be considered when choosing one for our kids. And now, with EasySchoolSearch, you can.
EasySchoolSearch is a freely browsable extensive database of over 130,000 US public and private elementary and secondary schools with grades kindergarten through twelve. EasySchoolSearch maps all the schools in a particular zip code or by freetext search in a particular state. You can browse by state, district or county, and much more. The data provided by EasySchoolSearch includes characteristics such as school size, school level, geographic region, community type, program emphasis, and, where available, other data such as religious orientation and association membership. What’s neat with this service is that it also incorporates Google maps to provide accurate maps of each location.
Data sources of EasySchoolSearch are taken from :
- School District data :National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education.
- Public School data: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. (CCD Public school data 2003-2004 school year)
- Private School data: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. (PSS Private School Universe Survey data for the 2003-2004 school year)
- US Counties Fips data: (US Census Bureau) http://www.census.gov/geo/www/fips/fips65/download.html
Although have a very extensive data sources, we have to warn you that we had found some layout errors with FireFox, while with IE7, the layout is fine. This is definitely one of the aspect the website needs to improve. Other than that, we are quite satisfied of the data we get from this site. So, feel free to browse EasySchoolSearch and leave your comments in our posting 
