Private School Locations Current

Overview This feature service provides current point locations and supplemental geographic attributes for private schools included in the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Private School Survey. It supports school-level reference, location, and geography assignments derived from reported physical address information. Content The layer contains private school point records with school identifiers, names, mailing or location address information, and associated geographic classifications such as county, locale, metropolitan area, congressional district, and state legislative district. It also includes latitude and longitude for each school and a school year reference tied to the survey collection. Source and Use The data are produced by NCES through the Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program and are intended for linking school locations with survey records, mapping private school distribution, and supporting geographic analysis of private education across the United States and its territories. Geographic Coverage The service covers private schools reported in the most current Private School Survey collection and reflects nationwide coverage where records were available in the survey universe. Access and Attribution All information in this layer is in the public domain. NCES EDGE is the source and access information.