New York City Middle School Attendance Zone Boundaries

2024-2025 school year data defines zoning for middle school grades. The dataset contains geographic boundaries and administrative codes for school districts in New York City. It is published by the New York City Department of Education via the city's open data portal and was last updated in November 2024.

Use Cases

• Mapping school attendance zones by analyzing the_geom and BORO columns.
• Identifying a school's zoned district using the ZONED_DIST and DBN fields for enrollment planning.
• Tracking administrative changes to zone boundaries via the CREAT_DATE and EDIT_DATE fields.
• Calculating the geographic area of school zones using the Shape_Area attribute.

Strengths

• Geospatial data includes geometry column (the_geom) for mapping.
• Contains administrative identifiers (DBN, MSID_NO) for linking to other education datasets.
• Data is current for the 2024-2025 school year.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, limiting assessment of completeness.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing verification of data structure and values.
• License information is unspecified, which may restrict commercial use.

Provenance

Source

New York City Department of Education via data.cityofnewyork.us.

Time Range

2024-2025 school year.

Freshness

Updated November 2024.

Geography

New York City, New York, USA.