School Attendance Boundary Survey 2013-2014

The School Attendance Boundaries Survey (SABS) was an experimental survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) with assistance from the U.S. Census Bureau to collect school attendance boundaries for regular schools in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Attendance boundaries, sometimes known as school catchment areas, define the geographic extent served by a local school for the purpose of student assignments. School district administrators create attendance areas to help organize and plan district-wide services, and districts may adjust individual school boundaries to help balance the physical capacity of local schools with changes in the local school-age population. The SABS collection includes boundaries for more than 70,000 schools in over 12,000 school districts throughout the U.S. All information contained in this file is in the public domain. Data users are advised to review NCES program documentation and feature class metadata to understand the limitations and appropriate use of these data.学区入学边界调查（School Attendance Boundaries Survey, SABS）是由美国教育部（U.S. Department of Education, ED）下属的国家教育统计中心（National Center for Education Statistics, NCES）联合美国人口普查局开展的试点调查项目，旨在收集美国50个州及哥伦比亚特区内公立常规学校的入学边界信息。入学边界，又称招生服务区（school catchment areas），明确了当地学校用于学生入学分配的服务地理范围。学区管理人员划定入学服务区以统筹规划全学区的服务工作，学区亦可调整单所学校的边界，从而平衡当地学校的实体承载能力与本地学龄人口的变化。本次SABS数据集共收录全美超过1.2万个学区内的7万余所学校的入学边界信息。本文件包含的所有信息均属于公共领域。建议数据使用者查阅NCES项目文档与要素类元数据，以了解本数据集的局限性与合理使用方式。