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Education Statistics <br />
California Basic Educational Data System<br />
The California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS) is a system for collecting and<br />
sharing demographic data about students, schools, school districts, and classified and<br />
professional education staff in the California public school system in grades<br />
kindergarten through twelve. The data are collected once a year on the first Wednesday<br />
in October, which is designated as “Information Day.”<br />
The data are collected on three different forms. Each district and county office of<br />
education completes a form providing information about classified staff, estimated<br />
teacher hires, grading requirements, gifted and talented education (GATE), and<br />
interdistrict transfers. Each public school completes a form providing information about<br />
classified staff; graduates; dropouts; alternative education; school enrollment by grade<br />
level, gender, and ethnic designation; enrollment in selected high school courses;<br />
career technical education enrollment; technology; education calendar; and graduate<br />
and dropout data for No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Finally, for each certificated staff<br />
member, data are collected about age; ethnic designation; gender; highest education<br />
level; years of service; employee status; time base; type of teaching credential;<br />
authorized teaching areas; and assignment information, which consists of enrollment,<br />
grade level, University of California (UC)/California State University (CSU)<br />
requirements, and NCLB core and compliant data for each course taught.<br />
A number of alternatives are available to school districts for submitting the required<br />
data. Paper submission is an option for small districts submitting certificated staff data.<br />
All other districts submit data electronically. For school and certificated staff data<br />
submission, data entry assistant programs are available on CD-ROM.<br />
CBEDS was originally designed to produce state and federal reports required by<br />
California’s Education Code and by federal statutes. CBEDS is also used to compute<br />
funding for many of the state programs, including Instructional Materials, Career<br />
Technical Education, Safe and Drug-Free Schools, Healthy Start Support Services<br />
grants, and the California Technology Assistance Project.<br />
CBEDS data can be viewed in a variety of formats on the CBEDS Web site at<br />
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/cb:<br />
• DataQuest lets users create their own reports of demographic data for public <br />
schools, districts, counties, or the state. <br />
• Demographic reports are viewable and show trends in demographic data for <br />
California public schools, kindergarten through grade twelve (K–12). <br />
• Demographic data <strong>file</strong>s are compressed data <strong>file</strong>s in database format (DBF) that<br />
can be downloaded for California public schools, K–12.<br />
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