SchoolDigger Python SDK

Official Python client for the SchoolDigger API — K-12 school data for 120,000+ U.S. schools.

Installation

pip install schooldigger

Quick Start

import schooldigger

config = schooldigger.Configuration()
config.api_key["appID"] = "YOUR_APP_ID"
config.api_key["appKey"] = "YOUR_APP_KEY"

client = schooldigger.ApiClient(config)

# Search schools
api = schooldigger.SchoolsApi(client)
result = api.search_schools(st="WA", q="Lincoln")
for school in result.school_list:
    print(f"{school.school_name} — {school.address.city}, {school.address.state}")

# Get a specific school by SchoolDigger ID
school = api.get_school("530966001632")
print(f"Enrollment: {school.school_yearly_details[0].number_of_students}")

API Classes

Class	Methods
SchoolsApi	search_schools(), get_school()
DistrictsApi	search_districts(), get_district()
RankingsApi	get_school_rankings(), get_district_rankings()
AutocompleteApi	autocomplete_schools(), autocomplete_districts()

Test scores in API 3.0

This version of the SDK targets API 3.0. Pass include_ranges=True to get_school / get_district (without it the record is identical to API 2.4). Each test-score percent (percent_met_standard, percent_tier1 ... percent_tier5) is either a number or an APIReportedPercent object (status of range, suppressed, legacyImputed or derived, with optional value, low, high), and is None when the state reported nothing. The SDK exposes the union through .actual_instance:

school = api.get_school("330004800609", include_ranges=True)
for ts in school.test_scores or []:
    v = ts.school_test_score.percent_met_standard if ts.school_test_score else None
    v = v.actual_instance if v is not None else None
    if v is None:
        text = "not reported"
    elif isinstance(v, (int, float)):
        text = f"{v}%"
    elif v.status == "suppressed":
        text = "suppressed by the state"
    elif v.low is not None and v.low <= 0:
        text = f"< {v.high}%"
    elif v.high is not None and v.high >= 100:
        text = f">= {v.low}%"
    elif v.low is not None:
        text = f"{v.low}-{v.high}%"
    else:
        text = f"{v.value}%"
    print(ts.year, ts.grade, ts.subject, text)

See Data Quality and Suppression for the full vocabulary and rendering rule. API 2.4 and below (SDK 1.x) return only exact values.

Authentication

All API calls require an appID and appKey. Get your free API key at developer.schooldigger.com.

Documentation

• API Reference
• Get your free API key
• SchoolDigger.com

Plans

Plan	Price	Highlights
DEV/TEST	Free	Enterprise-level access, 20 calls/day
Basic	$19.90/mo	1 year of data
Pro	$89/mo	Boundaries, geo search, finance
Enterprise	$189/mo	Full depth, boundary containment

License

MIT