Public School Locations 2016-17

The National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimate (EDGE) program develops annually updated point locations (latitude and longitude) for public elementary and secondary schools included in the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD). The CCD is an annual collection of basic administrative characteristics that includes the physical address for all public schools, school districts, and state education agencies in the United States. The NCES EDGE program collaborates with the U.S. Census Bureau’s Education Demographic, Geographic, and Economic Statistics (EDGE) Branch to develop point locations for schools and school district administrative offices based on these addresses. The point locations in this data layer were developed from the 2016-2017 CCD collection. For more information about NCES school point data, see: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/SchoolLocations. 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.美国国家教育统计中心（National Center for Education Statistics，NCES）的教育人口与地理估算（Education Demographic and Geographic Estimate，EDGE）项目，会为纳入NCES通用数据核心（Common Core of Data，CCD）的公立中小学生成每年更新的点位坐标（纬度与经度）。CCD是一项年度采集的基础行政特征数据集，涵盖美国所有公立学校、学区及州教育机构的实体地址。NCES EDGE项目与美国人口普查局教育人口、地理与经济统计（EDGE）分支合作，基于上述地址信息生成学校及学区行政办公室的点位坐标。本数据层的点位坐标基于2016-2017学年的CCD数据集生成。如需了解更多NCES学校点位数据的相关信息，请访问：https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/SchoolLocations。本文件包含的全部信息均属于公共领域。建议数据使用者查阅NCES项目文档及要素类元数据，以明晰该数据集的局限性与合理使用规范。