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    • School District Composites SY 2013-14 TL 14

    Metadata Updated: October 21, 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 single-purpose administrative units designed by state and local officials to organize and provide public education for local residents. District boundaries are collected for NCES by the U.S. Census Bureau to support educational research and program administration, and the boundaries are essential for constructing district-level estimates of the number of children in poverty.

    The Census Bureau’s School District Boundary Review program (SDRP) (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sdrp.html) obtains the boundaries, names, and grade ranges from state officials, and integrates these updates into Census TIGER. Census TIGER boundaries include legal maritime buffers for coastal areas by default, but the NCES composite file removes these buffers to facilitate broader use and cleaner cartographic representation. The NCES EDGE program collaborates with the U.S. Census Bureau’s Education Demographic, Geographic, and Economic Statistics (EDGE) Branch to develop the composite school district files. The inputs for this data layer were developed from Census TIGER/Line 2014 and represent boundaries reported for the 2013-2014 school year. For more information about NCES school district boundary data, see https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/DistrictBoundaries.

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    Metadata Created Date April 16, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date October 21, 2024

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    Harvested from Education JSON

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    Metadata Created Date April 16, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date October 21, 2024
    Publisher National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
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    Data First Published 2020-03-20T21:45:45.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2024-10-19T12:47:04.315166
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    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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    Source Hash 944fe07a19c35c0befc0a1bf38a6ba2bb9af4ca5ffa2b9b54335fd536ed39a97
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