What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Private/independent school associations and individual schools (tuition fee schedules), fee-comparison publishers, after-school/wraparound… | per school per year group per term | public |
| geospatial/movement | Education ministries and mapping agencies (school locations, catchment/attendance zones), home-to-school transport operators and… | per school point/polygon; per route per day for transport | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | National/regional education ministries and school inspectorates (e.g. UK DfE Get Information About Schools, US NCES Common Core of Data)… | per school (establishment ID), updated termly/annually | public |
| employment & workforce | Education ministries (school workforce censuses), teacher registration/licensing councils, teacher unions, national statistics offices | per teacher record (restricted); per school headcount/FTE, pay bands, vacancies… | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Parent-review and school-search platforms (GreatSchools, Locrating), Google/Facebook reviews, national parent surveys run by inspectorates… | per review; per school survey aggregates | public |
| energy consumption | School estate managers, local authority energy teams, energy suppliers, building energy certificate registers (EPC/DEC) | half-hourly meter reads per building; annual per site certificates | public |
| financial filings | Public school district/academy trust financial returns to ministries and auditors; private school charity/company filings to registrars | annual per school or trust/district, with expenditure line items | public |
| maintenance & asset condition | Ministries/local authorities running school estate condition surveys, facilities management contractors | per building element per survey cycle | public |
| customer demographics | Education ministries and local education authorities (pupil censuses: enrolment by age, gender, free-school-meal/FRPL eligibility… | per pupil (restricted) / school-level aggregates annually | public |
| quality & compliance testing | National assessment agencies and inspectorates (standardised test results, inspection ratings), international programmes (TIMSS/PIRLS)… | per pupil per test (restricted); per school/year aggregates published | public |
| inventory & supply chain | Educational publishers and school supply distributors, school procurement/purchasing consortia, IT device rollout programmes | per order line per school | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Schools and local authorities (behaviour/exclusion records, accident books, safeguarding referrals), inspectorates, insurers of school… | per incident; per school aggregates (exclusions, suspensions) published annually | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Schools and local authorities (capacity vs enrolment, class sizes, daily attendance registers), MIS/SIS vendors (SIMS, Arbor, PowerSchool… | daily per pupil attendance; per class/school capacity termly | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Cashless catering and school payment platforms (ParentPay, iPayimpact, MySchoolBucks), school meal caterers, uniform/trip suppliers | per transaction per pupil account | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | School estate teams and building-management/indoor air quality vendors (CO2 monitors distributed under ventilation programmes)… | per sensor per minute/hour per classroom | exclusive |
| communications/marketing performance | Private school marketing departments and admissions CRM vendors, school-to-parent messaging platforms (ClassDojo, ParentMail), edtech… | per campaign/per message; per pupil-parent engagement event | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.