---
id: "ncesid"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["education"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 90
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ncesid"
---

# US NCES school identifier (`ncesid`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of a US school assigned by the National Center for Education Statistics: twelve digits for a public school (the seven-digit district ID followed by a five-digit school number) or eight characters for a private school.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Education (education)
- Countries: global
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:\d{12}|[A-Z0-9]{8})$
```

## Examples

- `180915001514` — Portage High School
- `550561002248` — Grafton High School
- `341242000688` — Paramus High School

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P2484`

## Metacrafter rules

2 rules: 1 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `ennecsfield` (field, `us/us_education.yaml`)
- `ennecsvalue` (data, `us/us_education.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2484>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: negative example, translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ncesid.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/education/ncesid.yaml>