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.

  • DataMart
    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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  • DataVista
    DataVista inspires a greater understanding of student achievement, builds understanding about student outcomes and provides information to support evidence-based decision making at schools, colleges and within the state.

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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

  • The Fall 2023 Zip Code by College ABCEFGH (Excel) 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 DataMart 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

DataMart Resources

System Wage Tracker Methodology (PDF)

College Wage Tracker Methodology (PDF)

Difference between System and College DataMart Wage Tracker (PDF)

Data Element Dictionary Resources

The Data Element Dictionary (PDF) provides the technical specifications for the data to be collected and reported to the state. The Dictionary is organized by domain and contains detailed information for each element within a domain.

Submission Data Elements