# Department of Education Open Data Platform API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/department-of-education/open-data-platform-api/  
**Provider:** Department of Education — https://apis.io/providers/department-of-education/  
**Base URL:** https://data.ed.gov/api/3  
**Documentation:** https://data.ed.gov/

Department of Education Open Data Platform API is one of 4 APIs that [Department of Education](https://apis.io/providers/department-of-education/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include CKAN, Datasets, and Open Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The Department of Education Open Data Platform (ODP) at data.ed.gov is built on CKAN and exposes a CKAN-compatible REST API for searching, retrieving, and downloading the Department's public datasets. The API surface mirrors CKAN package, resource, group, and search actions over JSON.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://data.ed.gov/about
- **FAQ** — https://data.ed.gov/faq
- **User Guide** — https://data.ed.gov/pages/publichelp
- **CKAN Reference** — https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.8/api/

## Other Department of Education APIs (3)

- [College Scorecard API](https://apis.io/apis/department-of-education/college-scorecard-api/)
- [IPEDS Data](https://apis.io/apis/department-of-education/ipeds-data/)
- [Department of Education Schools API](https://apis.io/apis/department-of-education/department-of-education-schools-api/)

## Tags

CKAN, Datasets, Open Data

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