Open Data Index for Schools (ODIS)

This dataset is used to calculate the Open Data Index for Schools (ODIS), which offers educators and researchers a resource for contextualizing student-learning outcomes through a set of school-neighborhood indicators as well as a composite index. The underlying repository is designed to consolidate data on communities surrounding the approximately 23,000 public high schools (including magnet schools, charter schools, and traditional public schools) across the United States and make them easier for users to access and use. The indicators and composite index represent the level of "stress" that school communities experience, measured across five domains Economics, Education, Health, Housing, and Crime. Each domain comprises several indicators, each with an associated measure.

The technical report provides detailed information about each variable in the dataset, along with methodological information on how to standardize, aggregate, and weight diverse data sources from census tracts, cities, and counties to create a composite index.