School District Boundaries in Cook County Illinois

Boundary data for each school within Cook County, Illinois. The dataset includes geographic shapes and administrative details for school facilities. It was published by the Cook County government and was last updated in January 2026.

Use Cases

• Map school catchment areas using the_geom and CFNAME columns.
• Analyze the distribution of school types across communities using CFTYPE, CFSUBTYPE, and Community fields.
• Calculate service area metrics like SHAPE_area and SHAPE_len for facility planning.
• Join school boundary data with other demographic datasets using the Jurisdicti or MERGEID fields.

Strengths

• Includes geographic shape data (the_geom) for spatial analysis.
• Contains multiple administrative classification columns (CFTYPE, CFSUBTYPE, Jurisdicti).

Limitations

• Sample data and total row count are unavailable, preventing assessment of completeness.
• Key metadata like license, author, and exact data collection method are unknown.

Provenance

Source

datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov

Freshness

Last updated January 2026.

Geography

Cook County, Illinois, USA