School District Characteristics 2020-21

<p></p><p>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 special-purpose governments and administrative
 units designed by state and local officials to provide public education
 for local residents. District boundaries are collected for NCES by the 
U.S. Census Bureau to develop demographic estimates and to support 
educational research and program administration. The NCES Common Core of
 Data (CCD) program is an annual collection of basic administrative 
characteristics for all public schools, school districts, and state 
education agencies in the United States. These characteristics are 
reported by state education officials and include directory information,
 number of students, number of teachers, grade span, and other 
conditions. The administrative attributes in this layer were developed 
from the 2020-2021 CCD collection. For more information about NCES 
school district boundaries, see: <a href='https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/DistrictBoundaries' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/DistrictBoundaries</a>. For more information about CCD school district attributes, see: <a href='https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/files.asp' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/files.asp</a>.</p><div>Notes:</div><div><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' style='border-collapse:collapse; border:none;'>
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  <p style='margin-bottom:0in;'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;'>-1 or M</span></p>
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  <p style='margin-bottom:0in;'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;'>Indicates that the data are missing.</span></p>
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  <p style='margin-bottom:0in;'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;'>-2 or N</span></p>
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  <p style='margin-bottom:0in;'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;'>Indicates that the data are not applicable.</span></p>
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  <p style='margin-bottom:0in;'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;'>-9</span></p>
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  <p style='margin-bottom:0in;'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;'>Indicates that the data do not meet NCES data quality standards.</span></p>
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Tags: ccd, common-core-of-data, edge, education-demographic-and-geographic-estimates-program, national-center-for-education-statistics, nces, public-schools, school-district-boundaries, u-s-census-bureau, united-states, us-census-bureau
Organization: Department of Education