The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) maintains a partnership with NDUS Institutional Research (NDUS-IR) for research and data services. Additionally, NDUS-IR and NDDPI collaborate with the North Dakota Information Technology Department (NDIT) on the Insights project. The Insights project is a set of statewide dashboards for K-12 school accountability, and is located at insights.nd.gov.
If you anticipate you will need assistance from the IR team in analyzing survey results, please involve our staff in the survey design process. Below are resources to help you get started. The checklist highlights key considerations for creating and implementing successful surveys. We encourage you to draft some survey questions that we can help refine.
NDUS-IR staff are responsible for handling data requests related to K-12 enrollment. To make a K-12 data request, contact the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction.
The data available through ND Insights and the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction websites have been carefully suppressed to protect student privacy. For example, when reporting student proficiency data for small groups, exact values are often replaced with value ranges (e.g., “60–70% proficient”) to prevent the identification of individual students. Additionally, if a student group contains fewer than 10 individuals, no data is reported. This suppression helps ensure that personal information cannot be inferred, even indirectly, from the data.
When public data sources do not meet research needs and a request for row-level data is made to the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI), enhanced privacy protections are required. This includes the execution of a signed Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) between NDDPI and the researcher. To protect student confidentiality, no data will be reported for any student group with fewer than 25 individuals. This elevated suppression threshold helps mitigate the risk of identifying students in small populations, even when all personally identifiable information has been removed.
Provides a breakdown of North Dakota K-12 schools by district, REAs, counties, legislative boundaries, and early childhood programs.
Provides K-12 public school performance indicators and NDUS enrollment by fields of study. Downloadable K-12 data from publicly available aggregate data downloads for a wide range of performance measures.