Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates Program (EDGE): Composite School District Boundaries File Documentation

Title:	Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates Program (EDGE): Composite School District Boundaries File Documentation
Description:	The NCES Composite School District Boundaries combine the boundaries of three of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) school district layers (Elementary, Secondary, and Unified) into a single file. This simplifies the task of linking school district boundaries with other types of school district data by eliminating the need to join data to multiple boundary files. It also simplifies district-level mapping by providing wall-to-wall school district geographic coverage for all U.S. territory in a single file. This school district boundary file was developed from geographic shapefiles created by the U.S. Census Bureau and made available for download by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) through its Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program.
Online Availability:	Download, view and print the report as a pdf file. (388KB)
Cover Date:	August 2017
Web Release:	August 1, 2017
Publication #:	NCES 2017035
Center/Program:	NCES
Authors:	Douglas Geverdt
Type of Product:	User's Manual/Data File Documentation
Survey/Program Areas:	Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE)
Keywords:	Data Collection Data Use Geography Public Elementary and Secondary Agencies Public Schools • elementary • elementary/secondary • secondary School Districts • characteristics of 100 largest • characteristics of small and rural • listing of
Questions:	For questions about the content of this User's Manual/Data File Documentation, please contact: Douglas Geverdt.