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School District Composites SY -21 TL 21 [National Center for Education Statistics] {2020}

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School District Composites SY -21 TL 21 [National Center for Education Statistics] {2020}
Description
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 (SDBR) (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 2021 and represent boundaries reported for the 2020-2021 school year. For more information about NCES school district boundary data, see https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/DistrictBoundaries. 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.
Creator
National Center for Education Statistics
Publisher
EDGE Geodata
Temporal Coverage
2020
Date Issued
2021-11-29
Rights
https://resources.data.gov/open-licenses/
Access Rights
Public
Format
Shapefile
Language
English
Date Added
May 13, 2025
Provenance Statement
Downloaded from https://data-nces.opendata.arcgis.com on 2025-03-06

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    National Center for Education Statistics (2021). School District Composites SY -21 TL 21 [National Center for Education Statistics] {2020}. EDGE Geodata. (dataset)
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