A variety of information sources offer data to paint a comprehensive picture of how California's 116 community colleges are preparing students to succeed. Here, we highlight three primary information portals for researchers and also provide additional resources including technical documentation. More tools and resources about the California Community Colleges system are available in the additional resources section below, or on the Data for College Professionals web page.

  • Data Mart
    Holding the largest volume of publicly available data on California community college students, Data Mart provides aggregate information about students, courses, support services and outcomes as well as faculty and staff.

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  • Student Success Metrics
    Part of the LaunchBoard, these metrics capture progression along students' educational journeys from recruitment to completion, transfer and the workforce. This tool allows for various groupings of students by year, region and other characteristics.

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  • Transfer Level Gateway Dashboard

    The Transfer Level Gateway Completion Dashboard provides completion rates of transfer-level English, mathematics (or equivalent quantitative reasoning course), and credit ESL starting from students' first course enrollment in the discipline (whether at or below transfer-level).

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Additional Resources 

Taxonomy of Program (TOP) Information

  • TOP Code Manual (Excel)
  • TOP CIP Crosswalk (Excel)

Zip Codes by College

  • This file provides the number of students by zip code at each California community college. Students included in this file are limited to those with student headcount status = A, B, C, or F (consistent with previous zip code by college files). Note that this is different from current Data Mart headcount definition (headcount status = A, B, C, E, F, G or H).
  • This file provides the number of students by zip code at each California community college (2023 Fall). Students included in this file are limited to those with headcount status = A, B, C, E, F, G or H (consistent with current Data Mart definition). Note that this is different from previous zip code by college files (which only included headcount status = A, B, C, or F).

Measuring Disproportionate Impact

Percentage Point Gap (PPG) Method (PDF)

Percentage Point Gap Minus One (PPG-1) Method

Wage Resources

Framework for Tracking Wages (PDF)

Salary Surfer Methodology (PDF)

Department of Finance Inflation Indices

Data Mart Resources

System Wage Tracker Methodology (PDF)

College Wage Tracker Methodology (PDF)

Difference between System and College Data Mart Wage Tracker (PDF)

Data Element Dictionary Resources

Student Characteristics Derived Data Elements (PDF)

Submission Data Elements