Educational Structures

Overview This feature service provides point locations for educational structures in the United States, organized into three layers that reflect different school and campus types. It supports location-based search, mapping, and reference for education-related facilities. Feature Layers Colleges and Universities — Locations of higher education campuses and facilities, including naming and address information for each structure. Technical Trade Schools — Locations of vocational and career-focused schools, with supporting site and source attribution details. Schools — Locations of general school facilities, including structure names, addresses, and administrative classification information. Common Attributes Across the layers, records include stable identifiers, source metadata, loading dates, feature coding, location type, administration type, landmark status, and address information. The service also includes reference identifiers such as GNIS and facility-related IDs that support integration with other datasets and authoritative naming resources. Geographic Coverage The service covers educational structures across the United States and has a broad national extent suitable for nationwide search and mapping. Use Cases Locating colleges, universities, schools, and vocational facilities on a map Supporting education planning, facility reference, and address lookup Linking educational sites to authoritative names and source records Displaying educational infrastructure in general reference and cartographic applications