Pittsburgh Public Schools Attendance Boundaries for Feeder Patterns

Attendance boundaries for Pittsburgh Public Schools assign students to feeder pattern schools based on residence. The boundaries were adopted for the 2012-13 school year and are designed to align with major roads, neighborhood boundaries, and natural features. The dataset supports the feeder pattern system to enable elementary students to move to the same middle school and middle school students to transition to the same high school.

Use Cases

• Analyze the alignment of attendance boundaries with major roads and neighborhood boundaries for urban planning.
• Map student residential assignment to feeder pattern schools to study school access and equity.
• Examine the geographic design enabling elementary-to-middle and middle-to-high school transitions within defined areas.

Strengths

• Boundaries were officially adopted by Pittsburgh Public Schools for a specific school year (2012-13).
• Geographic features like major roads and natural features were explicitly used in boundary drawing.
• Data is provided by an official regional data center (Allegheny County / City of Pittsburgh / Western PA Regional Data Center).

Limitations

• Data is static from the 2012-13 adoption and may not reflect subsequent boundary changes.
• No tabular column or row information is available to quantify the dataset's scale.
• The dataset format includes PDF files, which are less machine-readable for analysis than structured geospatial formats.

Provenance

Source

Allegheny County / City of Pittsburgh / Western PA Regional Data Center

Collection Method

Adopted by Pittsburgh Public Schools; boundaries drawn to align with geographic features.

Time Range

Adopted for the 2012-13 school year.

Freshness

Last updated on 2023-01-24, but the underlying boundaries are from 2012-13.

Geography

Pittsburgh Public Schools district, Pennsylvania, USA.