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Unified School Districts, Wisconsin 2022
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Unified School Districts, Wisconsin 2022
- Originator
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Creation Date
- 2018-02-07
- Publication Date
- 2018-02-07
- Revision Date
- 2018-02-07
- Edition
- 2022
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Collection Title
- Statewide, Wisconsin State Agencies
- Abstract
- This data represents boundaries for unified school district boundaries within the state of Wisconsin in 2022. [Unified School Districts for the State of Wisconsin - valid for the 2022-2023 school year. This dataset includes boundaries for unified school district boundaries within the state of Wisconsin. By law, all territory in the state must be included within a public school district. The US Census Bureau identifies three types of school districts. Unified school districts serve children of all grade levels, Elementary primarily serve students in the elementary grades, and Secondary primarily serve children in grades 9-12. Out of 421 school districts in Wisconsin, 368 are considered unified districts. This layer is an aggregate of county-submitted data for school district boundaries based on 2019 tax parcel data. Boundaries for this layer may vary greatly in areas compared to the 2017, 2018, and 2019 layers. Please refer to the Lineage section for more information on these boundary changes. Each year, there is a chance for reorganizations to take place that either transfer territory between school districts or consolidate/dissolve/create districts. These reorganizations go into effect on July 1st of each year. In 2022, there were seven (7) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Adams, Dane, Marathon, and Waukesha counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Adams-Friendship Area and Westfield, Wausau and Marathon City, Middleton-Cross Plains Area and Madison Metropolitan, Waukesha and Elmbrook, and Hamilton and Menomonee Falls. Please refer to the property transfer log for more information. This is not an official authoritative statewide dataset for unified school district boundaries nor does one exist for Wisconsin. The boundaries reflect tax parcel data submitted by Wisconsin counties in January of each year. These boundaries are updated annually around July 1 to reflect boundary changes from the reorganization process and as needed throughout the rest of the year.]
- Purpose
- This data is intended for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. [Unified School Districts for the State of Wisconsin - valid for the 2022-2023 school year.]
- Supplemental Information
- This is an archived copy of the data held at UW-Madison. In 2022, there were seven (7) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Adams, Dane, Marathon, and Waukesha counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Adams-Friendship Area and Westfield, Wausau and Marathon City, Middleton-Cross Plains Area and Madison Metropolitan, Waukesha and Elmbrook, and Hamilton and Menomonee Falls. Please refer to the property transfer log for more information. In 2021, there were six (6) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Dane, Marathon, and St. Croix counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Merrill Area and Athens, DeForest Area and Madison Metropolitan, Middleton-Cross Plains Area and Madison Metropolitan, and Somerset and Hudson. In 2020, there were six (6) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Dane, St. Croix, and Waukesha counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Mineral Point and Iowa-Grant; Norris and Mukwonago; Middleton-Cross Plains and Madison Metropolitan; New Richmond and Somerset; and Middleton-Cross Plains and Wisconsin Heights. In 2019 there were eleven (11) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Calumet, Dane, Eau Claire, Iowa, La, Crosse, St. Croix, and Winnebago counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: In 2018, there were twelve (12) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Dane, Fond du Lac, Iron, Iowa, La, Crosse, Polk, St. Croix, and Washington counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Turtle Lake and Amery; Hurley (unified) and Lakeland UHS (secondary) / North Lakeland (elementary); West Salem and La Crosse; Waupun and Rosendale-Brandon; Middleton Cross-Plains and Madison Metropolitan; Osceola and Somerset; Mineral Point and Pecatonica For access to the most current data available, please visit: https://data-wi-dpi.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/WI-DPI::unified-school-districts-wisconsin-
- Temporal Extent
- Time Instant
- 2022-01-01T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -92.964328
- East
- -86.666089
- North
- 47.083273
- South
- 42.456895
- ISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- Place Keyword
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- GNS
- Theme Keyword
-
Boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Resource Constraints
- Use Limitation
- [The layer is intended for your reference use only. It contains the best information the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has to date, but no guarantee of accuracy is made. It should not be used for any land transactions, financial decisions, taxation, surveying, or other similar uses. See summary information about boundary changes in the DPI property transfer log. The DPI is not responsible for data that is misinterpreted or altered in any way. Derived conclusions and analyses generated from this data are not to be considered attributable to the DPI.]
- Legal Constraints
- Use Limitation
- Although this data is being distributed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the University as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University in the use of this data, or related materials.
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- annually
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster St.
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53703
- Country
- US
- Phone
- 608-266-3390
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Shelley Witte
- Position Name
- GIS Technician
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53701
- Country
- US
- shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
- Phone
- 608-266-3939
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 3071
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 6.12(9.2.0)
Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Statement
- This layer is the result of aggregation procedures implemented over school district boundary data provided by Wisconsin's 72 counties. The original statewide layer was developed using county school district boundary data submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) in 2017. In some places, these boundaries reflected school district information from tax parcels, in other places they did not. In 2020, the entire statewide layer was modified to wholly reflect the most recently released tax parcel data which is maintained at the county level.
- Process Step
- Description
- Provided access to archived data at UW-Madison.
- Process Date
- 2022-08-10T00:00:00
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Format Version
- 1.0
- Distributor
- Distributor
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Online Access
- https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/WI_Unified_School_Districts_2022.zip
- Protocol
- WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
- Name
- GeoData@Wisconsin
- Function
- download
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- Topology Level
- geometryOnly
- Vector Object Type
- composite
- Vector Object Count
- 369
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- 3B908556-9B9C-4761-B692-7B0E38674286
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- Shelley Witte
- Position Name
- GIS Technician
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53701
- Country
- US
- shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
- Phone
- 608-266-3939
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- Arthur H. Robinson Map Library
- Position Name
- metadata technician
- Delivery Point
- 550 N. Park Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53706
- Country
- US
- askmap@library.wisc.edu
- Phone
- (608) 262-1471
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2022-08-23
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8
