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This composite file contains elementary, secondary, and unified school district boundaries from the 2018-2019 academic year collected for the National Center for Education Statistics by the U.S. Census Bureau and reported in TIGER/Line 2019. |
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This composite file contains elementary, secondary, and unified school district boundaries from the 2018-2019 academic year collected for the National Center for Education Statistics by the U.S. Census Bureau and reported in TIGER/Line 2019. |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN><SPAN>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. </SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>The Census Bureau’s School District Boundary Review program (SDBR) (</SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sdrp.html"><SPAN><SPAN>https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sdrp.html</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN>) 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 2019 and represent boundaries reported for the 2018-2019 school year. For more information about NCES school district boundary data, see </SPAN><A href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/DistrictBoundaries"><SPAN><SPAN>https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/DistrictBoundaries</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN>. </SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><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></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>, <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><P><SPAN>The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions. Coordinates in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal places suggest.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV> |
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Clipped School Districts |
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