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School District Characteristics - Current

Metadata Updated: May 23, 2024

The National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimate (EDGE) program develops annually updated school district boundary composite files that include public elementary, secondary, and unified school district boundaries clipped to the U.S. shoreline. School districts are special-purpose governments and administrative units designed by state and local officials to provide public education for local residents. District boundaries are collected for NCES by the U.S. Census Bureau to develop demographic estimates and to support educational research and program administration. The NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) program is an annual collection of basic administrative characteristics for all public schools, school districts, and state education agencies in the United States. These characteristics are reported by state education officials and include directory information, number of students, number of teachers, grade span, and other conditions. The administrative attributes in this layer were developed from the most current CCD collection available. For more information about NCES school district boundaries, see: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/DistrictBoundaries. For more information about CCD school district attributes, see: https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/files.asp.Notes:-1 or MIndicates that the data are missing.-2 or NIndicates that the data are not applicable.-9Indicates that the data do not meet NCES data quality standards.Collections are available for the following years:2021-222020-212019-202018-192017-18All 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.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Metadata Created Date May 23, 2024
Metadata Updated Date May 23, 2024

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Harvested from Education JSON

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date May 23, 2024
Metadata Updated Date May 23, 2024
Publisher National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2022-04-21T18:58:13.000Z
Data Last Modified 2024-05-22T18:03:43.807101
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Harvest Source Title Education JSON
License https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Metadata Type geospatial
Program Code 018:000
Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department of Education > Office of the Secretary (OS) > Institute of Education Sciences (IES) > National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
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