Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Public School Locations 2020-21

Published by National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) | Department of Education | Catalog Last Checked: May 08, 2026 at 08:16 PM | Dataset Last Updated: September 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimate (EDGE) program develops annually updated point locations (latitude and longitude) for public elementary and secondary schools included in the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD). The CCD is an annual collection of basic administrative characteristics that includes the physical address for all public schools, school districts, and state education agencies in the United States. The NCES EDGE program collaborates with the U.S. Census Bureau to develop point locations for schools and school district administrative offices based on these addresses. The point locations in this data layer were developed from the 2020-2021 CCD collection. For more information about NCES school point data, see: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/SchoolLocations.All information contained in this file is in the public domain. Data users are advised to review NCES program documentation and feature class metadata to understand the limitations and appropriate use of these data.

Resources

9 resources available

Find Related Datasets

Search by Tags

Click any tag below to search for similar datasets

Complete Metadata
@type dcat:Dataset
accessLevel public
bureauCode 
                                            [
  "018:00",
  "018:50"
]
contactPoint 
                                            {
  "fn": "OpenDataMgr_NCES",
  "@type": "vcard:Contact",
  "hasEmail": "mailto:odp@ed.gov"
}
description <div style='text-align:Left;'><div><div><p><span>The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimate (EDGE) program develops annually updated point locations (latitude and longitude) for public elementary and secondary schools included in the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD). The CCD is an annual collection of basic administrative characteristics that includes the physical address for all public schools, school districts, and state education agencies in the United States. The NCES EDGE program collaborates with the U.S. Census Bureau to develop point locations for schools and school district administrative offices based on these addresses. The point locations in this data layer were developed from the 2020-2021 CCD collection. For more information about NCES school point data, see: <a href='https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/SchoolLocations' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/SchoolLocations</a>.</span></p><p><span>All information contained in this file is in the public domain. Data users are advised to review NCES program documentation and feature class metadata to understand the limitations and appropriate use of these data.</span><span></span></p><p><span></span></p></div></div></div>
distribution 
                                            [
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "CSV",
    "format": "CSV",
    "mediaType": "text/csv",
    "downloadURL": "https://data-nces.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nces::public-school-locations-2020-21.csv?outSR=%7B%22latestWkid%22%3A4269%2C%22wkid%22%3A4269%7D"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "GeoJSON",
    "format": "GeoJSON",
    "mediaType": "application/vnd.geo+json",
    "downloadURL": "https://data-nces.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nces::public-school-locations-2020-21.geojson?outSR=%7B%22latestWkid%22%3A4269%2C%22wkid%22%3A4269%7D"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "KML",
    "format": "KML",
    "mediaType": "application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml",
    "downloadURL": "https://data-nces.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nces::public-school-locations-2020-21.kml?outSR=%7B%22latestWkid%22%3A4269%2C%22wkid%22%3A4269%7D"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Shapefile",
    "format": "ZIP",
    "mediaType": "application/zip",
    "downloadURL": "https://data-nces.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nces::public-school-locations-2020-21.zip?outSR=%7B%22latestWkid%22%3A4269%2C%22wkid%22%3A4269%7D"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "ArcGIS Hub Dataset",
    "format": "HTML",
    "mediaType": "text/html",
    "downloadURL": "https://data-nces.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/nces::public-school-locations-2020-21"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "ArcGIS GeoService",
    "format": "ArcGIS GeoServices REST API",
    "mediaType": "application/json",
    "downloadURL": "https://nces.ed.gov/opengis/rest/services/K12_School_Locations/EDGE_GEOCODE_PUBLICSCH_2021/MapServer/0"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Geocodes: Public Schools and Local Education Agencies",
    "format": "ZIP",
    "mediaType": "application/zip",
    "downloadURL": "https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/data/EDGE_GEOCODE_PUBLICSCH_2021.zip"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Geocodes: Public Schools and Local Education Agencies",
    "format": "PDF",
    "mediaType": "application/pdf",
    "downloadURL": "https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/docs/EDGE_GEOCODE_PUBLIC_FILEDOC.pdf"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Original ISO-19139 metadata",
    "format": "XML",
    "mediaType": "text/xml",
    "downloadURL": "https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/5477c05873ac47fdab02e67f0fd4705f/info/metadata/metadata.xml?format=iso19139"
  }
]
identifier 714939d4-16c3-4bff-b4e3-4a7775005dbe
issued 2022-03-03T16:26:38.000Z
keyword 
                                            [
  "0ee4621b-38be-46bb-8360-219726022a58",
  "ccd",
  "common-core-of-data",
  "edge",
  "education-demographic-and-geographic-estimates-program",
  "geospatial",
  "national-center-for-education-statistics",
  "nces",
  "points",
  "public-school-locations",
  "public-schools",
  "u-s-census-bureau",
  "united-states",
  "us-census-bureau"
]
landingPage https://data-nces.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/nces::public-school-locations-2020-21
license https://resources.data.gov/open-licenses/
modified 2025-09-14T23:06:24.420347
programCode 
                                            [
  "018:107"
]
publisher 
                                            {
  "name": "National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)",
  "@type": "org:Organization"
}
rights us-pd; us-pd
spatial -176.64033000042915,-14.348923999842668,145.7844299997447,71.30033699995266
theme 
                                            [
  "geospatial"
]
title Public School Locations 2020-21

data.gov

An official website of the GSA's Technology Transformation Services

Looking for U.S. government information and services?
Visit USA.gov