Collection Information for the Elementary School Districts State-Based TIGER/Line Shapefiles, 2020

Description

The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. School Districts are single-purpose administrative units within which local officials provide public educational services for the area's residents. The Census Bureau obtains the boundaries, names, local education agency codes, grade ranges, and school district levels for school districts from State officials for the primary purpose of providing the U.S. Department of Education with estimates of the number of children in poverty within each school district. This information serves as the basis for the Department of Education to determine the annual allocation of Title I funding to States and school districts. TIGER/Line Shapefiles include separate shapefiles for elementary, secondary and unified school districts. The school district boundaries are those in effect for the 2019-2020 school year, i.e., in operation as of January 1, 2020.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Directory containing state-level ELSD shapefiles. https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2020/ELSD/
55 Entity and attribute file https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Archived_19110/tl_2020_elsd.shp.ea.iso.xml
23 The GeoServices REST Specification provides a way for Web clients to communicate with geographic information system (GIS) servers through Representational State Transfer (REST) technology. https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/School/MapServer
52 The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Web Map Service interface standard (WMS) provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from our geospatial database. The response to the request is one or more geo-registered map images that can be displayed in a browser or WMS client application. By gaining access to our data through our WMS, users can produce maps containing TIGERweb layers combined with layers from other servers. https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

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  • elementary school district
  • united states
  • polygon
  • u.s
  • state or equivalent entity
  • school district

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