The Common Core of Data (CCD) Nonfiscal surveys consist of data submitted annually by state education agencies (SEAs) to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). School, local education agency, and state data are sent to NCES by SEA personnel who are designated CCD Coordinators. The data are edited and maintained in machine-readable data sets by NCES, and are used to produce general purpose publications, specialized reports, and web-based applications. The 2005-06 NCES Common Core of Data Public Elementary/Secondary School Locale Code File (locale code file) contains 103,016 records, one for each public elementary/secondary school in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (domestic and overseas). Each record includes eleven data fields: NCES School ID; school name; local education agency ID; local education agency name; location city; location state; school latitude; school longitude; metro-centric locale code; urban-centric locale code; and the school operational status code. Definitions of terms, and a user's guide are included.