Public School Locations and Attributes for the 2018-19 Academic Year

Point locations and administrative data for public elementary and secondary schools in the United States, compiled from the 2018-19 Common Core of Data collection. The dataset includes school characteristics such as student demographics, teacher counts, and grade spans, developed by the National Center for Education Statistics in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau.

Use Cases

• Analyze the geographic distribution of schools using latitude and longitude point locations to identify service gaps.
• Study correlations between student demographics and administrative conditions like teacher counts or school grade span.
• Create maps and spatial analyses of public school infrastructure across the United States for the 2018-19 period.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) program, which collects information from all state education agencies.
• Includes multiple geographic data formats (GEOJSON, KML) suitable for mapping and spatial analysis.
• Provides point locations (latitude/longitude) for schools, enabling precise geospatial applications.

Limitations

• The data is from the 2018-19 academic year and may not reflect current school conditions or locations.
• Missing data is indicated with codes (-1/M, -2/N), which requires careful handling during analysis.
• Specific row counts and column details are not provided, limiting pre-analysis assessment of dataset scale and structure.

Provenance

Source

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimate (EDGE) program.

Collection Method

Annually collected administrative and fiscal data supplied by state education agency officials, with point locations developed in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau.

Time Range

2018-2019 academic year.

Freshness

Data reflects the 2018-19 collection; the metadata was last updated in October 2024.

Geography

United States.