Private School Locations 2015-16

The National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimate (EDGE) program develops bi-annually updated point locations (latitude and longitude) for private schools included in the NCES Private School Survey (PSS). The PSS is conducted to generate biennial data on the total number of private schools, teachers, and students, and to build an accurate and complete list of private schools to serve as a sampling frame for NCES surveys. The PSS school location and associated geographic area assignments are derived from reported information about the physical location of private schools. The school geocode file includes supplemental geographic information for the universe of schools reported in the 2015-2016 PSS school sample, and they can be integrated with the survey files through use of institutional identifiers included in both sources. For more information about NCES school point data, see: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/SchoolLocations and https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/LocaleBoundaries. 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，为纳入NCES私立学校调查（Private School Survey，PSS）的私立学校开发每两年更新一次的点位坐标（纬度与经度）。PSS旨在生成涵盖私立学校、教师与学生总数的两年期数据，并构建准确完整的私立学校名录，作为NCES各项调查的抽样框架。PSS的学校点位及关联地理区域赋值，均基于私立学校物理位置的上报信息推导得出。该学校地理编码文件包含2015-2016学年PSS抽样学校全域的补充地理信息，可通过两份数据源共有的机构标识符与调查文件实现整合。如需了解更多NCES学校点位数据的相关信息，请访问以下链接：https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/SchoolLocations 及 https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/LocaleBoundaries。本文件包含的所有信息均属于公共领域。数据使用者应查阅NCES项目文档与要素类（feature class）元数据，以明晰该类数据的局限性与合理使用方式。