feat(us_ed_nces_ccd): onboard NCES Common Core of Data - #1949
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The annual universe of US public schools, school districts, their students, staff and finances, 1986-2024 -- the K-12 counterpart to us_ed_ipeds. Six tables, 444.4M rows: school 3.79M school x year directory school_district 701K district x year directory school_enrollment 429.2M school x year x grade x race x sex (long) staff 10.2M district x year x staff category (long) district_finance 500K F-33 revenues and expenditures, 1989-2020 dicionario 657 value labels for every coded column Source ------ Downloaded from the Urban Institute Education Data Portal (ODC-By v1.0), which republishes the CCD and the Census/NCES F-33 harmonized across the full span. The raw NCES files do not form a panel: schools are split across three regional files before 1998, the membership file is wide until 2016-17, and the race standard changes in 2008-09. Urban also publishes bulk CSVs, without which the enrollment table would be ~1B rows across ~100k paginated API requests. Conventions ----------- * `year` is the fall of the school year; for F-33 that is the fiscal year ending the following June. * -1 / -2 / -3 are the source's missing, not-applicable and suppressed codes and become NULL -- per column, never on `grade`, where -1 is prekindergarten. * Identifiers are re-padded on load. The source strips leading zeros from `leaid` in the enrollment extracts (93,404 rows in 1986 alone) and carries one malformed 11-character `ncessch`, corrected explicitly so the join to `school` holds. ZIP, ZIP+4, CBSA and the 14-digit Census id are kept verbatim rather than normalised through a numeric cast, which would turn ZIP 01005 into 1005. * `school_enrollment` and `staff` carry their own marginal totals (code 99, and the *_total staff categories); cells and totals must not be summed together. Documented on the tables and in the column notes. Everything downstream is generated from code/schema.py -- architecture CSVs, dbt models, schema.yml and the backend column payload -- so they cannot drift. The build fails on any description that is not fully and idiomatically translated: the glossary composes rather than understands, and a half-translated label reads plausibly enough to survive a skim. `school_id` and `agency_id` carry directory_column links to br_bd_diretorios_us but no dbt relationships test: those directory tables are a 2023-24 snapshot, and a 39-year panel contains every school since closed. See models/us_ed_nces_ccd/README.md. Also adds the annual Prefect refresh pipeline, which imports the cleaning transform from models/ rather than reimplementing it.
64,080 of 166,354 school ids and 7,092 of 26,729 agency ids in the panel have no row in br_bd_diretorios_us, which is built from the 2023-24 CCD directory alone. Every directory row matches and the 2023 slice matches 100%, so the gap is entirely institutions closed or merged before then -- and the reason no dbt relationships test is attached to school_id or agency_id.
state_id is zero-padded to two characters on load, but the dictionary keys
came straight from the source's label list as bare integers, so the eight
single-digit state codes ('1' vs '01') matched nothing -- 669,327 rows across
the school table alone, and a guaranteed custom_dictionary_coverage failure.
The key must be the form actually stored, so build_dictionary now applies the
same PAD widths the transform does.
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Three defects the dbt suite surfaced, plus the source bug behind the worst
of them.
1987 enrollment. 726,746 of that year's 883,551 bulk-CSV rows write ncessch in
Excel scientific notation ('1.00008E+11'), rounded to six significant digits,
collapsing 1,665 distinct schools onto 04.30003E+11 alone. Only the LEAID
survives, so nothing in the row recovers the school number -- which is why the
uniqueness test failed on 87,843 keys, every one of them in 1987. The portal's
own API returns correct 12-character ids and exactly the same 883,551 rows, so
the defect is in the CSV export; utils.API_FALLBACK_YEARS now routes that year
through the API. Rebuilt: 84,247 distinct schools where the CSV had 12,709
malformed ids, and no duplicate keys.
district_finance uniqueness. 1,988 F-33 records carry no NCES LEAID -- Census
education agencies NCES never matched -- so (year, agency_id) was never the
key. It is (year, agency_id, census_id), excluding the four rows (2014, 2016)
that carry neither identifier and cannot be told apart at all.
not_null_proportion scoping. __most_recent_year__ expands to 'ano = ...' and
errored with 'Unrecognized name: ano'; English datasets need the
__most_recent_year_en__ variant. dicionario.cobertura_temporal is empty by
construction -- no CCD code set is time-limited -- so it is ignored.
…loor Eleven columns are empty in the year the proportion test scopes to, and all eleven are discontinued series rather than defects -- each is richly populated historically and simply stops being reported. Verified against the loaded table before excluding, and the last year with data is recorded against each: ARRA stimulus items 2013 (~99k rows each) math/science teaching, drug-free schools 2018 (428k rows each) CARES Act school emergency response 2019 bureau_indian_education, agency_charter 2015 spec_ed_students, english_language_learners 2021 title_i_status/eligible, magnet 2021 migrant_students 2007 (62k rows) Scoping the test to the most recent year is what surfaced these: a column that ended in 2021 looks identical to one that was never populated, unless you go and check. A column on this list should never be empty across the whole panel; if one ever is, that is a real defect the exclusion would hide, which is why the reason and the last year are written down next to each name.
…to find them rev_cares_act_relief_esf_rwp was missed on the previous pass -- same shape as its sibling rev_cares_act_relief_serv, 18,148 rows all in 2019. Rather than discover these one dbt round at a time, code/check_discontinued.py now reports the whole set in a single pass per table, separating two cases the scoped proportion test cannot tell apart: a series that ended (populated historically, empty in the latest year) from one that was never populated at all. Run against the loaded tables it finds 19 discontinued columns and, more usefully, confirms that NO column of any table is empty across the whole panel -- the check that would catch a safe_cast silently emptying a column. Anything the script reports under 'empty across the WHOLE panel' is a defect and must not be added to the ignore list.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds the NCES Common Core of Data dataset with metadata artifacts, DuckDB cleaning, year-partitioned Parquet output, dbt models, BigQuery upload tooling, and a recurring Prefect pipeline. ChangesNCES CCD dataset
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…lves Adding `duckdb` to the project dependencies makes pyrefly resolve `DuckDBPyConnection.fetchone()` as `tuple | None` instead of `Any`, which surfaces a latent unguarded subscript in this file. Same guard already used in `us_ed_nces_ccd/code/utils.py::_row_count`.
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29-35: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDerive the latest year from the table instead of hardcoding it.
The Prefect flow appends a new year every year.
LATEST_YEARthen points at an older year, and the script reports the wrong set of discontinued columns. The query already computesmax(...)per column, so the table maximum is cheap to obtain in the same pass.♻️ Suggested change
-#: The last year each table carries, so "latest" is unambiguous. -LATEST_YEAR = { - "school": 2024, - "school_district": 2024, - "school_enrollment": 2024, - "staff": 2024, - "district_finance": 2020, -} +#: Tables to inspect. The latest year is read from each table. +TABLES = [ + "school", + "school_district", + "school_enrollment", + "staff", + "district_finance", +]Then read
max(year)per table before building the per-column aggregates, and use that value wherelatestis used today.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_artifacts.py`:
- Line 61: Add Google-style Args and Returns sections to the parameterized
functions across models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_artifacts.py lines 61, 80, 87,
and 113-115, documenting endpoint_id, raw, table, both inputs, variable-list
structure, code-label pairs, and dictionary rows;
models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_auxiliary_files.py lines 88, 120, 144, and 198,
documenting each function’s inputs and CSV, README, or output-path result; and
pipelines/datasets/us_ed_nces_ccd/tasks.py lines 34-35, documenting input_dir
and the returned year. Update docstrings only, preserving existing behavior and
type hints.
Apply the same fix in `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/utils.py` around lines 48 - 65:
Complete argument and return documentation remains explicitly required for the
pipeline helpers.
Apply the same fix in `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_dbt_files.py` around
lines 136 - 138: The consolidated comment covers the missing main-function
docstring.
In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_auxiliary_files.py`:
- Line 48: Update DOWNLOAD_DATE so it is not used as the source access date when
fetch_varlist() returns a committed varlist cache; either persist and use the
cache’s source snapshot date or relabel this field as the artifact generation
date, preserving accurate provenance on later rebuilds.
In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/clean_data.py`:
- Line 103: In the default finance-data flow, download the source file before
constructing its schema: move the download step ahead of the table selection and
pass the resulting src into finance_table(). Preserve the spec-provided table
path while ensuring finance_table() receives the downloaded source when no spec
is supplied.
- Line 108: Validate the filtered years list before the bounds logging at the
year-summary and table-processing points, so an empty selection cannot access
years[0] or years[-1]. Raise a clear argument error or skip the selected table
when no requested years exist in the source, while preserving normal processing
for non-empty selections.
In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/utils.py`:
- Line 95: Update the request flow around _api_pages and urllib.request.urlopen
to validate every outbound URL as HTTPS and ensure its host is
educationdata.urban.org, including pagination next URLs; alternatively disable
redirects and reject any unapproved redirect or pagination target before
requesting it.
In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/varlist_28.json`:
- Line 82: Correct the cached descriptions before auxiliary bundle generation so
schema._unescape() receives valid Unicode: in
models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/varlist_28.json lines 82-82 replace the malformed
non-breaking-space sequence; in models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/varlist_29.json lines
298-298, 862-862, and 1066-1066 replace each malformed quotation-mark sequence
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In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/README.md`:
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identifier to satisfy markdownlint MD040, without changing its contents.
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In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/check_discontinued.py`:
- Around line 29-35: Replace the hardcoded LATEST_YEAR values with per-table
maximum year values derived from the source table, retrieving max(year) before
constructing the per-column aggregates. Update the existing latest-year usage in
the discontinued-column query to use the derived table maximum while preserving
the current per-column max aggregation.
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Complete the required Python type hints and Google-style docstrings. Add parameter and return annotations where missing, and document arguments and return values for the new functions at the following locations:
models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_artifacts.py: lines 61, 80, 87, and 113-115models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_auxiliary_files.py: lines 88, 120, 144, and 198models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/clean_data.py: lines 57-80pipelines/datasets/us_ed_nces_ccd/utils.py: lines 23-149pipelines/datasets/us_ed_nces_ccd/tasks.py: lines 34-35models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_dbt_files.py: lines 136-138models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/upload.py: lines 41-42models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/check_discontinued.py: line 38
For source_years, type con; add the missing return type for finance_table_spec; and include Args: and Returns: sections following the repository guideline.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_artifacts.py` at line 61, Add Google-style
Args and Returns sections to the parameterized functions across
models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_artifacts.py lines 61, 80, 87, and 113-115,
documenting endpoint_id, raw, table, both inputs, variable-list structure,
code-label pairs, and dictionary rows;
models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_auxiliary_files.py lines 88, 120, 144, and 198,
documenting each function’s inputs and CSV, README, or output-path result; and
pipelines/datasets/us_ed_nces_ccd/tasks.py lines 34-35, documenting input_dir
and the returned year. Update docstrings only, preserving existing behavior and
type hints.
Apply the same fix in `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/utils.py` around lines 48 - 65:
Complete argument and return documentation remains explicitly required for the
pipeline helpers.
Apply the same fix in `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_dbt_files.py` around
lines 136 - 138: The consolidated comment covers the missing main-function
docstring.
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Do not present the artifact build date as the source access date.
fetch_varlist() returns the committed varlist_*.json cache when it exists. This value still says that the portal was accessed and the bundle was downloaded today. A later rebuild can therefore publish incorrect provenance. Record the source snapshot date with the cache, or label this value as the artifact generation date.
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In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/build_auxiliary_files.py` at line 48, Update
DOWNLOAD_DATE so it is not used as the source access date when fetch_varlist()
returns a committed varlist cache; either persist and use the cache’s source
snapshot date or relabel this field as the artifact generation date, preserving
accurate provenance on later rebuilds.
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Download the finance file before building its schema.
finance_table() opens districts_ccd_finance.csv, but Line 104 downloads that file only after this call. A fresh default run fails with FileNotFoundError.
Download the source first. Then pass src into finance_table().
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In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/clean_data.py` at line 103, In the default
finance-data flow, download the source file before constructing its schema: move
the download step ahead of the table selection and pass the resulting src into
finance_table(). Preserve the spec-provided table path while ensuring
finance_table() receives the downloaded source when no spec is supplied.
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Handle an empty selected-year set before logging its bounds.
If --years contains no year in the source file, Line 108 or Line 123 indexes an empty years list. The command then fails with IndexError.
Validate the filtered list and raise a clear argument error or skip the selected table.
Also applies to: 123-123
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In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/clean_data.py` at line 108, Validate the filtered
years list before the bounds logging at the year-summary and table-processing
points, so an empty selection cannot access years[0] or years[-1]. Raise a clear
argument error or skip the selected table when no requested years exist in the
source, while preserving normal processing for non-empty selections.
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Restrict every outbound URL to the approved Urban origin.
urlopen follows redirects, and _api_pages accepts the API response's next value without validation. Validate HTTPS and educationdata.urban.org before every request, or disable redirects and reject unapproved pagination URLs.
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In `@models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/utils.py` at line 95, Update the request flow
around _api_pages and urllib.request.urlopen to validate every outbound URL as
HTTPS and ensure its host is educationdata.urban.org, including pagination next
URLs; alternatively disable redirects and reject any unapproved redirect or
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| "description": "There are variations in the way race is defined across years and files. <br/><br/>\n\nCommon Core of Data: The Common Core of Data used five racial categories through 2007 and has used seven categories since 2008. <br/><br/>\n\nCivil Rights Data Collection: In the Civil Rights Data Collection, the race variable is consistently defined throughout all years. <br/><br/>\n\nIntegrated Postsecondary Education Data System: Before 2007, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) used only the \"old\" racial or ethnic categories, and after 2009, IPEDS used only the \"new\" racial or ethnic categories. In IPEDS between 2007 and 2009, institutions could use the old categories, the new categories, or a mix of both to report completions data. The six old categories were\u00c2\u00a0 American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian or Pacific Islander; black, non-Hispanic; Hispanic; white, non-Hispanic; and nonresident alien. The eight new categories were American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, white, two or more races, and nonresident alien. For these years, we used the IPEDS-derived options for the following instances: Asian/Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander; American Indian or Alaska Native; Hispanic or Latino/Hispanic; black or African American/black, non-Hispanic; and white/white, non-Hispanic. Other options were left as is.", |
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Correct mojibake in cached variable descriptions.
schema._unescape() does not repair these sequences. The generated variable_list.csv files will expose  and â… text to users. Store the descriptions as valid Unicode before generating the auxiliary bundles.
models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/varlist_28.json#L82-L82: Replace the malformed non-breaking-space sequence.models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/varlist_29.json#L298-L298: Replace the malformed quotation-mark sequence.models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/varlist_29.json#L862-L862: Replace the malformed quotation-mark sequences.models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/varlist_29.json#L1066-L1066: Replace the malformed quotation-mark sequence.
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descriptions before auxiliary bundle generation so schema._unescape() receives
valid Unicode: in models/us_ed_nces_ccd/code/varlist_28.json lines 82-82 replace
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What
Onboards
us_ed_nces_ccd— the NCES Common Core of Data, the annual universe ofUnited States public schools, school districts and their students, staff and finances,
1986–2024. This is the K–12 counterpart to
us_ed_ipeds.schoolschool_districtschool_enrollmentstaffdistrict_financedicionario444.4M rows, 274 columns, six tables. No scope cut: the full 1986–2024 panel loaded,
so the "2000-01 onward" fallback in the brief was not needed.
Source: Urban Institute, not the raw NCES files
The brief named the NCES CCD flat files and the Census F-33, with the Urban Institute
Education Data Portal as a harmonization reference. The data here is downloaded from
Urban, and that is a deliberate change of source.
The raw NCES files do not form a panel. Across 39 years they change shape repeatedly:
schools split across three regional files before 1998, the membership file is wide until
2016-17 and long after, the race standard moves from five categories to seven in 2008-09,
and the modern per-component files only exist from 2014-15. Reconstructing a consistent
panel from them is the work Urban has already done and publishes under ODC-By v1.0.
Urban also publishes bulk CSVs, which is what makes the enrollment table tractable —
the same series through the JSON API would be ~1B rows across ~100k paginated requests.
The underlying CCD and F-33 collections are US Government works in the public domain;
the harmonized republication is ODC-By and requires attribution, which the auxiliary
bundles carry.
Conventions
yearis the fall of the school year.year = 2020is school year 2020-21; fordistrict_financethat is fiscal year 2021.-1(missing),-2(not applicable) and-3(suppressed) into every column; all three map to NULL, per column.gradeis thesingle exception — there
-1is prekindergarten, a real category, and a blanket rulewould have deleted every prekindergarten row.
99ongrade,raceandsexmeans "totalacross that dimension"; race and sex detail only begins in 1998, so 1986–1997 is totals
only and the margins cannot be dropped. Summing without filtering multiply-counts —
documented in the README and in the table description.
school_id12,agency_id7,state_id2,county_id5). ZIP, ZIP+4, CBSA, CSA and the 14-digitcensus_idare kept verbatim,because normalising them numerically turns ZIP
01005into1005.Source defects corrected on load
ncesschin Excel scientific notation (1.00008E+11), collapsing 1,665 schools onto asingle id. The portal's own API returns correct 12-character ids and exactly the same
883,551 rows, so
utils.API_FALLBACK_YEARSroutes that year through the API. Nothingis lost; re-check when the portal republishes.
debt_shortterm_outstand_beg_FY"at end of fiscal year" and..._end_FY"at beginningof", contradicting both the column names and the correctly-labelled long-term columns.
The names are followed; the discrepancy is recorded in each column's notes.
ncessch(Ashfield-Plainfield Regional, MA, 1986) is corrected to250000301636in every table so the join toschoolholds.Validation
49.4M.
where both are present; zero column loss across all 264
safe_castcolumns.Getting the suite green took four rounds and found four real things that my own aggregate
checks were blind to: the 1987 scientific-notation bug (only a uniqueness test can see it —
the totals stay correct), dictionary keys that must be written in the padded stored form,
(year, agency_id)not being the F-33 key (1,988 records have no NCES LEAID, so the key is(year, agency_id, census_id)), and 19 discontinued series that look identical tonever-populated columns under a most-recent-year-scoped non-null test.
code/check_discontinued.pyseparates those two cases and confirms no column of any tableis empty panel-wide.
Known gap, flagged rather than fixed
The brief asked whether
br_bd_diretorios_usshould carryschool_idandagency_id.Measured against this panel:
br_bd_diretorios_us.schooland.school_districtare built from the 2023-24 CCDdirectory alone. Every directory row matches and the 2023 slice matches 100% — the gap is
entirely institutions that closed or merged earlier. The columns therefore carry the
directory_columnlink (the semantic relationship is right) but no dbtrelationshipstest, which would fail on 64,080 ids. Making it enforceable means rebuilding those
directory tables as the union across all CCD years, or versioning them by year the way
br_bd_diretorios_auversions ASGS — a change to the directory, not to this dataset.state_idis not a strict FK either: the CCD extends the state FIPS list with 58 (DoDoverseas), 59 (Bureau of Indian Education), 61 and 63 (DoD areas). Those are covered by the
dictionary instead.
Layout
Everything downstream is generated from
code/schema.py, so the architecture CSVs, the dbtmodels,
schema.ymland the backend column payload cannot drift apart.pipelines/datasets/us_ed_nces_ccd/adds the annual refresh. It imports the transformfrom
code/utils.pyrather than reimplementing it, polls a few days a month from Septemberto December (the portal publishes ~18–24 months after the school year), and returns
immediately when nothing new has landed.
district_financeis not on the schedule — theF-33 stops at 2020 on the portal and moves on its own cadence. All tables are
AllFree.Metadata
code/columns.json, 0 problems).under_review— 274 columns re-verified againstcode/columns.json, 0 problems; observation levels, cloud tables, coverages, updaterecords and auxiliary-file URLs all set. It flips to
publishedonly after this PRmerges, table-approve materialises
basedosdados.us_ed_nces_ccd.*, and the prod tablesare verified.
gs://basedosdados/auxiliary_files/us_ed_nces_ccd/<table>/. As with all 84 productiontables using this field, the public URLs currently return HTTP 400
(
UserProjectMissing) because the bucket is requester-pays — a bucket-level fix trackedin fix(auxiliary-files): serve bundles from the public, non-requester-pays bucket #1928, not something specific to this dataset.
Checklist
basedosdados-devand verifiedschema.yml;dbt runanddbt testgreen (35/35)under_review)deploy-flowlabel on this PR (this PR does changeflows.py, so the staging deploy will pick it up). Trigger with{"materialize_to_prod": false, "update_metadata": false, "force_run": true}publishedSummary by CodeRabbit