Control General Escuelas - SUCRE: School Directory for Sucre Department, Colombia

A database of schools in the Colombian department of Sucre, provided by the Departmental Education Secretariat. The data is current as of November 2021 and includes administrative details for educational establishments. The dataset is hosted on the Colombian open data portal, www.datos.gov.co, and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping school locations and administrative zones using MUNICIPIO and ZONA columns.
• Analyzing the distribution of educational institutions by municipality using MUNICIPIO and NOMBRE DE ESTABLECIMIENTO EDUCATIVO.
• Linking school headquarters to their specific branches using DANE E.E. and DANE SEDE identifiers.
• Creating a directory of school leadership by compiling RECTOR / DIRECTOR and NOMBRE DE LA SEDE information.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the official Departmental Education Secretariat (Secretaría de Educación Departamental).
• Includes official DANE codes (DANE E.E., DANE SEDE) for standardized institution identification.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Secretaría de Educación Departamental de Sucre, via www.datos.gov.co.

Collection Method

Likely an administrative registry compiled by the departmental education authority.

Time Range

Data is current as of November 2021.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:07:09; freshness should be verified against the source date of November 2021.

Geography

Sucre Department, Colombia.