School Gardens Program in District of Columbia Public and Charter Schools

The OSSE School Gardens Program provides technical assistance and training to schools and partner organizations in the District of Columbia. It aims to increase the number of students engaged in high-quality garden-based learning. The dataset was last updated on March 18, 2026, and is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Map the locations of school garden programs based on available geospatial data.
• Analyze the distribution of garden programs across public and charter schools.
• Assess program reach and technical assistance needs for schools and partner organizations.

Strengths

• Data is licensed under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Multiple file formats are available, including CSV and geospatial formats like GEOJSON and KML.
• The dataset was updated on March 18, 2026, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description is high-level and does not specify the granularity of the data (e.g., school-level vs. program-level).

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia, Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE).

Collection Method

Likely collected through program administration and reporting.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 08:12:46.321061

Geography

District of Columbia