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School Boundaries Product Guide

Product type
Data
Portfolio
Enrich
Product family
Enrich Boundaries > Community Boundaries
Product
Schools > School Boundaries
Version
Latest
ft:locale
en-US
Product name
School Boundaries
ft:title
School Boundaries Product Guide
Copyright
2025
First publish date
2010
ft:lastEdition
2025-06-27
ft:lastPublication
2025-06-27T10:26:53.518000
  • School attendance zone boundaries: Locally sourced boundaries within a school district to delineate where students in that district attend school.
  • School district boundaries: A nationwide layer of school district boundaries that are continually enhanced using locally sourced information.
  • Public school locations: School locations presented with rooftop coordinates, contact and address data, as well as school type and educational level.
  • Core attributes: School profile information, such as student enrollment and teacher counts from the National Center for Education.
  • School choice flag: An attribute for each school point indicating whether that school has a choice option.
  • Alternate IDs: NCES IDs for linking School Boundaries to NCES data at the school level.
  • Change table: Indicates geometry/attribution additions, deletions, or changes from the previous release, by record ID (starting with the Q1 2018 release).