Quebec Educational Institution Locations for Public, Private, and Post-Secondary Networks

Geospatial locations of educational institutions in Quebec, including public French-speaking, English-speaking, and special status schools, as well as private and governmental schools. The dataset covers preschool, primary, secondary, vocational training, adult education, and college and university networks. It is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-04 22.

Use Cases

• Analyze school accessibility and distribution based on the described coverage of public and private institutions.
• Map service areas for different educational levels (preschool to university) based on the described network categories.
• Plan transportation or community infrastructure based on the geospatial location of vocational and adult education centers.

Strengths

• Covers multiple educational sectors and levels as described: public, private, governmental, preschool to university.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including SHP, GEOJSON, and KML.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Likely administrative data collection from educational authorities.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:39:11.094395; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Quebec, Canada