Public School Locations And Administrative Attributes 2022-23

The National Center for Education Statistics' EDGE program provides annually updated point locations and administrative data for all public elementary and secondary schools in the United States. The dataset includes latitude and longitude coordinates, basic directory information, student demographics, teacher counts, and school grade span for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Use Cases

• Map public school locations using latitude and longitude coordinates to analyze geographic distribution and access.
• Analyze student demographics data across school grade span categories to identify enrollment patterns.
• Correlate the number of teachers with administrative attributes like school size or grade levels.
• Join school point locations with other geographic datasets using reported physical location data.

Strengths

• Data is collected annually from all public schools, school districts, and state education agencies in the United States.
• Includes both geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude) and a range of administrative attributes.
• Developed by the authoritative NCES EDGE program from the official Common Core of Data collection.

Limitations

• Missing data indicators (-1, M, -2, N) are present, requiring careful handling of null values.
• Specific row count and column count are unknown, limiting precise assessment of scale and features.
• The dataset may not include all CCD attributes, as noted in the source documentation.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative and fiscal data collected annually from state education agency officials.

Time Range

2022-2023 academic year.

Freshness

Annually updated; data reflects the 2022-2023 collection year.

Geography

United States.