Chicago Public Schools Elementary Attendance Boundaries for School Year 2024-2025

Attendance boundaries for elementary schools in the Chicago Public Schools district for the 2024-2025 school year. The dataset, published by data.cityofchicago.org, includes spatial geometry and school identifiers. It was last updated on September 29, 2025.

Use Cases

• Mapping school attendance zones using the_geom and SHORT_NAME for spatial analysis.
• Analyzing school service areas by GRADE_CAT and BOUNDARYGR to understand grade-level coverage.
• Joining with student address data using SCHOOL_ID and SCHOOL_ADD for enrollment eligibility checks.

Strengths

• Includes the_geom column for direct geospatial analysis and mapping.
• Contains specific school identifiers (SCHOOL_ID) and addresses (SCHOOL_ADD) for data linkage.
• Dataset is current for the 2024-2025 school year, as indicated by the title and last update.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofchicago.org

Time Range

School Year 2024-2025

Freshness

Last updated 2025-09-29 21:53:38; freshness should be verified for subsequent school years.

Geography

Chicago, Illinois, USA