School District Characteristics 2021-22

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;'></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;'>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
2021-2022 CCD collection. For more information about NCES school district
boundaries, see: <a href='https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/DistrictBoundaries' rel='nofollow ugc'>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' rel='nofollow ugc'>https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/files.asp</a>.</p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;'><br /></p>

<p style='margin-bottom:0in;'><span>Notes:</span></p>

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  <p style='margin:0in;'>-1 or M</p></td><td style='width:337.25pt; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;' valign='top' width='450'><p style='margin:0in;'>Indicates that the data are missing.</p>
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  <p style='margin:0in;'>-2 or N</p>
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  <p style='margin:0in;'>Indicates that the data are not applicable.</p>
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  <p style='margin:0in;'>-9</p>
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  <p style='margin:0in;'>Indicates that the data do not meet NCES data quality standards.</p>
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<p>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.</p>

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