School District Boundaries Resources

Change and School District Resources

It is important to note the school districts are continually changing as a result of demographic shifts, financial issues, and failing schools. Recent years have seen an increase in this rate of change across the US.

For information on the history and change in US school districts, please visit Change is Constant for US School Districts.

Nationwide School District Resources

Congress does require the Census Bureau to create special tabulations of decennial census by school district boundaries to support calculations for such allocations as Title I funding. Every two years, the Census conducts a review of school districts and collects paper and sometimes digital map data from designated state school district mapping coordinators. However the TIGER school district data may be as much as three years old when they are made available.

If you are looking for specific school information, a comprehensive list of schools is maintained by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Although public schools are required to report annually, the NCES generally does not publish results until about a year after the reporting cutoff and depending on when changes occur they may not be included in the schools annual report. This may cause some of the data on their site to be as much as two years old.

Maponics is the first commercial GIS provider to understand the importance of having the most current school district and school location information available to online real estate companies and other companies that value school information for their clients. (Read More at Maponics First to Provide School Attendance Zone Boundaries ) Currency is important when someone is looking to purchase a house and know where their child will go to school. They do not want to relay on data or information that is two years old and older or have to determine which school office to call for information. Maponics continues to update its school data to keep it current for their clients and their customers.

To learn more about how Maponics resources their school boundaries data to create school boundary maps, please visit How We Source and Build School Attendance Zones (SAZ’s) .