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Doug GeverdtEducational Demographic and

Geographic Estimates Program

NCES Geographic Boundaries:

School Districts, Locales, and Beyond

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School District Geography – Why care?

• A fundamental organizing feature of public education

• Boundaries define legal jurisdiction and obligation

• Boundaries impact policy and program eligibility

• Demographic estimates (e.g., poverty) depend on geography

• Boundaries are educational data (not just for visualization)

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School Districts - Regional Variation

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School Districts - County and City

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School Districts - County and City

Regional variation in rural school districts

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School Districts – Township/Town

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School Districts - Independent

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School Districts - Mountain/western states

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School Districts – Types based on grade span

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School Districts - Boundary Archive

• Based on Census TIGER/Line

• 20 year time series (1994-2014)

• Shapefile format includes NCES school district ID

• Available for U.S. and for individual states

• Standard layers(3) and single composite layer

• School District Geographic Relationship Files (GRF)

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Locale Classifications

• General indicator of school location

• Annually updated and assigned to schools

• Twelve classifications:– Basic types: City, Suburban, Town, Rural

– Expanded subtypes based on size and proximity

• Based on Census concepts – urban/rural, principal cities

• Augmented with clips and buffers

• Advantages as a general geographic framework– More nuanced than urban/rural or metropolitan hierarchies

– Avoids urban, suburban, and rural confusion

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Locale Classifications

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EDGE R&D

• Need: supplemental neighborhood poverty indicators

• Why?

– Poverty affects educational outcomes

– Limited data sources

• Problems– Source for authoritative data? (ACS)

– What’s a neighborhood?

– Data trade-off and disclosure for small areas?

• Mission/Design– Use spatial stats to develop estimates based on neighbors

– Create school-centered neighborhood poverty estimates

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EDGE R&D – SIDE Project

ACS sample case

Predicted location (school)

Geographic boundary

Traditional SIDE

SIDE - Spatially Interpolated Demographic Estimates

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EDGE R&D – SIDE Project

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EDGE R&D - SIDE

Questions?

Doug GeverdtNational Center for Education Statistics

[email protected]

Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/

mailto:[email protected]

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/

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