---
title: "Georgia certified-personnel staff composition, from the Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) Certified Person"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/education/certified_personnel_composition"
tags: ["education"]
---

# Georgia certified-personnel staff composition, from the Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) Certified Person

`GET /api/v1/education/certified_personnel_composition`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://georgiacivicdata.org`
- URL: `https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/certified_personnel_composition`
- Auth: none declared

Georgia certified-personnel staff composition, from the Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) Certified Personnel report (compiled from local school systems' Certified/Classified Personnel Information (CPI) submissions). For every Georgia public school, school district, and the state as a whole, publishes staff headcounts along five mutually exclusive staff-attribute axes — certificate level (Bachelor's through Doctoral, plus Other), certification status (Professional / Provisional), gender, employment status (Full/Part-time), and race/ethnicity — for each of three employee groups (Administrators, PK-12 Teachers, Support Personnel), school years 2010-11 through 2023-24. This topic covers WHO the staff are; its sibling topics from the same GOSA source cover how experienced they are (`certified_personnel_experience`: years-of-experience band headcounts and the mean) and their positions and pay (`certified_personnel_compensation`: FTE position counts and average salary/contract days).

**Filterable categorical columns** (comma-separated values union; multiple columns AND together):
- `employee_type` — one of: `administrators`, `pk_12_teachers`, `support_personnel`
- `staff_attribute_category` — one of: `certificate_level`, `certification_status`, `employment_status`, `gender`, `race_ethnicity`
- `staff_attribute` — one of: `4_yr_bachelors`, `5_yr_masters`, `6_yr_specialists`, `7_yr_doctoral`, `asian_pacific_islander`, `black`, `female`, `full_time`, `hispanic`, `male`, `multiracial`, `native_american`, `other`, `part_time`, `professional`, `provisional`, `white`

**Detail levels available:** districts, schools, states (default: `schools`)

**Year coverage:** 2011–2024 (14 years, no gaps)

**NULL handling:** zero is a real value.

**Source:** Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA)

## Query parameters

- `year` integer, nullable: Exact year
- `year_min` integer, nullable: Inclusive lower bound
- `year_max` integer, nullable: Inclusive upper bound
- `district_code` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of GOSA district codes (e.g. `601,602`)
- `school_code` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of GOSA school codes. Combine with `district_code` for unique school keys.
- `county_fips` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 5-digit county FIPS codes (e.g. `13121,13067`)
- `tract_geoid` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 11-digit census tract GEOIDs (e.g. `13121011100`)
- `block_group_geoid` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 12-digit census block group GEOIDs (e.g. `131210111001`)
- `demographic` string, nullable: Comma-separated demographic codes (e.g. `all,black,hispanic`)
- `detail` string, nullable: Detail level (whatever the topic publishes — e.g. schools, districts, counties, or states).
- `limit` integer, nullable: Page size
- `offset` integer: Page offset
- `columns` string, nullable: Comma-separated output columns to return (fact columns plus joined dimension attributes). Defaults to all.
- `format` 'json' | 'csv' | 'parquet': Response format: json | csv | parquet

## Response `200`

Paginated rows. JSON returns an envelope with `data` and `pagination`; CSV/Parquet return raw bytes with `X-Total-Count` header.

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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