Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB)_School Locations

Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB) school locations include geometry_point, longitude, and latitude columns for geospatial analysis. The dataset is hosted by data.edmonton.ca and was last updated on 2025-02-13 21:27:27. It contains columns for school contact details, types, grades, and administrative boundaries from multiple organizations.

Use Cases

• Map school locations and calculate service areas using geometry_point, longitude, and latitude columns (from 21 available columns).
• Analyze the distribution of school types (sch_type) across different municipal wards (City of Edmonton - Ward Boundaries) and neighbourhoods (Neighbourhood Boundaries : 2019).
• Join school contact information (school_pho, school_ema, school_web) with location data for community outreach planning.
• Correlate school sectors and grades with demographic or infrastructure data from other datasets using shared geographic keys like neighbourhood or ward boundaries.

Strengths

• Includes 21 columns covering location, contact details, administrative boundaries, and identifiers.
• Provides multiple geographic reference layers including ward boundaries from three different organizations (City, Catholic District, EPSB) and 2019 neighbourhood boundaries.
• Data is available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• License and author information are unknown, which may affect usage terms.

Provenance

Source

data.edmonton.ca

Collection Method

Likely administrative data collected by the Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB).

Freshness

Last updated 2025-02-13 21:27:27; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.