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HIFLD Open Public Schools

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Oakridge National Laboratory; United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics; U.S. Dept of Homeland Security

Version:  View help for Version V2

Name File Type Size Last Modified
metadata.xml application/xml 37.8 KB 11/24/2025 09:35:AM
public-schools-geojson.zip application/zip 10 MB 11/24/2025 09:21:AM
public-schools-geopackage.zip application/zip 12.1 MB 11/24/2025 09:21:AM
public-schools-shapefile.zip application/zip 10.7 MB 11/24/2025 09:21:AM

Project Citation: 

Oakridge National Laboratory, United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics, and U.S. Dept of Homeland Security. HIFLD Open Public Schools. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-11-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/E240580V2

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title HIFLD Open Public Schools
Summary:  View help for Summary This Public Schools feature dataset is composed of all Public elementary and secondary education facilities in the United States as defined by the Common Core of Data (CCD, https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, https://nces.ed.gov), US Department of Education for the 2022-2023 school year. This includes all Kindergarten through 12th grade schools as tracked by the Common Core of Data. Included in this dataset are military schools in US territories and referenced in the city field with an APO or FPO address. DOD schools represented in the NCES data that are outside of the United States or US territories have been omitted. Complete field and attribute information is available in the "Entities and Attributes" metadata section. Geographical coverage is depicted in the thumbnail above and detailed in the Place Keyword section of the metadata. This release includes the addition of 2,556 new records, modifications to the spatial location and/or attribution of 99,712 records.
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Public Schools; Elementary Schools; Middle Schools; High Schools; Vocational Schools; Alternative Education; HIFLD Open; GIS
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 9/9/2017 – 9/9/2017
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) geographic information system (GIS) data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Archived from the HIFLD Open GIS data repository, which was deactivated on August 26, 2025.


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