Western Australia Active School Locations Semester 1 2020

Western Australia's Department of Education provides a geospatial dataset of active school locations for the first semester of the 2020 school year. The dataset was authored by Steven Borbely and includes multiple file formats like GeoJSON and Shapefile for mapping and analysis.

Use Cases

• Map school locations across Western Australia for demographic and infrastructure planning using geospatial coordinates.
• Analyze school distribution relative to population centers for accessibility studies with polygon or point data.
• Integrate school location data with other administrative boundaries for regional education resource allocation.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Department of Education of Western Australia.
• Offers multiple geospatial file formats including GeoJSON, Shapefile, and Geopackage for flexibility.

Limitations

• Data is temporally limited to a single semester in 2020 and may not reflect current school statuses.
• Specific data attributes like row count, column names, and sample size are unknown, limiting analytical scope.

Provenance

Source

Department of Education, Government of Western Australia

Collection Method

Administrative records from the education department.

Time Range

First semester of the 2020 school year.

Freshness

Last metadata update was 2026-03 24, but the underlying data covers 2020.

Geography

Western Australia, Australia