Pennsylvania School District Geographic Boundaries

School district boundaries in Pennsylvania derived from official Department of Education maps. The data was published by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in March 2021 for public information and transportation planning support. It includes attributes such as district names, county codes, and intermediate unit identifiers.

Use Cases

• Map school district service areas using the GIS_GEOMET or the_geom geometry columns for spatial visualization.
• Analyze district administrative relationships by joining on AUN_NUM (Administrative Unit Number) or IU_NUM (Intermediate Unit Number).
• Associate districts with counties for regional analysis using the PA_CTY_COD and CTY_NAME fields.
• Identify specific school entities within districts using the SCHOOL_NAM column for location-based studies.

Strengths

• Contains 18 distinct columns providing administrative and geometric attributes.
• Published by the state Department of Transportation, an authoritative source for planning data.

Limitations

• Sample data and total row count are unavailable, preventing assessment of completeness for all 500+ potential districts.
• The core geometry data (GIS_UPDATE) may not reflect changes after the March 2021 publication date.

Provenance

Source

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Planning and Research, Cartographic Information Division.

Collection Method

Derived from Pennsylvania Department of Education district maps.

Time Range

Publication date is March 2021; specific temporal coverage of boundaries is null.

Freshness

Last platform update was January 2022, but source publication date is March 2021.

Geography

State of Pennsylvania, USA.