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This page last updated: 09/09/2009
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| Originator | Minnesota Department of Education |
| Abstract | This file represents the boundaries of all public school districts in the state of Minnesota for school year 2009-2010. Each year, Minnesota school districts report any changes to their elementary, middle and high school attendance area boundaries. This file is maintained at the Department of Education, but is also supplied to the State of Minnesota Legislative Coordinating Commission GIS Office and the Land Management Information Center (LMIC). This school district file was dissolved from a file containing both the school district and attendance boundaries to produce just school district boundaries. |
| Browse Graphic | none available |
| Time Period of Content Date | 2010 |
| Currentness Reference | School year 2009-2010. |
| Access Constraints | None |
| Use Constraints | If you obtain data from MDE, it is understood that you and/or your organization have the right to use them for any internal purpose. If you modify them, you should document those changes in a metadata record that should accompany all redistributed data. If you transmit or provide these data in any form to another user, the data MUST be accompanied by a copy of MDE's disclaimer NOTICE.TXT and all documentation provided with the original data set including the full metadata record. |
| Distributor Organization | Minnesota Department of Education |
| Ordering Instructions | 1. GIS data: this data set is distributed on the internet by clicking below after Online Linkage. Doing so will tell your browser to start downloading a 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - Data in shapefile (.shp, .shx., .dbf) format - Documentation (.html) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this data set that can be read by most word processing software, and an ascii text version of the same notice (NOTICE.TXT) After downloading this 'zip' file, uncompress (unzip) it to extract the files described above. For help, see: http://www.gda.state.mn.us/resource.html?Id=16253#compress 2. School district maps: These maps show district and attendance boundaries, and public and non-public school program locations. Download in PDF format or order printed wallmaps from: http://www.gda.state.mn.us/maps/SchoolDistricts/ |
| Online Linkage | Click here to download data. (See Ordering Instructions above for details.) By clicking here, you agree to the notice in "Distribution Liability" in Section 6 of this metadata. |
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1. Identification Information
2. Data Quality Information
3. Spatial Data Organization Information
4. Spatial Reference Information
5. Entity and Attribute Information
6. Distribution Information
7. Metadata Reference Information
| Section 1 | Identification Information | Top of page | ||
| Originator | Minnesota Department of Education | |||
| Title | Minnesota School District Boundaries, SY2009-2010 | |||
| Abstract | This file represents the boundaries of all public school districts in the state of Minnesota for school year 2009-2010. Each year, Minnesota school districts report any changes to their elementary, middle and high school attendance area boundaries. This file is maintained at the Department of Education, but is also supplied to the State of Minnesota Legislative Coordinating Commission GIS Office and the Land Management Information Center (LMIC). This school district file was dissolved from a file containing both the school district and attendance boundaries to produce just school district boundaries. | |||
| Purpose | This school district boundary information is developed as a GIS data set and, along with additional information, is used by the Minnesota Department of Education to identify program financial priorities. It also provides a map of school district boundaries to support a variety of mapping and data analysis applications. | |||
| Time Period of Content Date | 2010 | |||
| Currentness Reference | School year 2009-2010. | |||
| Progress | Complete | |||
| Maintenance and Update Frequency | Annually | |||
| Spatial Extent of Data | Minnesota | |||
| Bounding Coordinates | -97.269854 -89.389133 49.404415 43.435420 |
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| Place Keywords | Minnesota | |||
| Theme Keywords | boundaries, school, school district | |||
| Theme Keyword Thesaurus | ISO 19115 Topic Category | |||
| Access Constraints | None | |||
| Use Constraints | If you obtain data from MDE, it is understood that you and/or your organization have the right to use them for any internal purpose. If you modify them, you should document those changes in a metadata record that should accompany all redistributed data. If you transmit or provide these data in any form to another user, the data MUST be accompanied by a copy of MDE's disclaimer NOTICE.TXT and all documentation provided with the original data set including the full metadata record. | |||
| Contact Person Information | Scott Freburg,
GIS Administrator Minnesota Department of Education 1500 Hwy 36 W. Roseville, MN 55113 Phone: 651-582-8789 FAX: E-mail: scott.freburg@state.mn.us | |||
| Browse Graphic | none available | |||
| Browse Graphic File Description | ||||
| Associated Data Sets | See related school datasets at: http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/chouse/metalong.html#admin |
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| Section 2 | Data Quality Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Attribute Accuracy | Each school district checks the previous year's map for accuracy of school names and boundaries. Changes are verified by the Minnesota Department of Education IT GIS Administrator. | |||
| Logical Consistency | Data are topologically structured and verified. | |||
| Completeness | Dataset includes all 339 public school districts in Minnesota. Additional polygons exist for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Lindbergh airport and the Camp Ripley military base. Not all schools have a website url. |
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| Horizontal Positional Accuracy | Positional accuracy of the data sources varies widely. Source scales range between 1:24,000 (or less) and 1:100,000. Many of the boundaries are hand-drawn by the school districts. See notes on potential boundary inaccuracies under 'Lineage'. | |||
| Lineage | The original 1990 School District file delineation work was done at LMIC on contract to the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau was under contract to the U.S. Department of Education to create a nationwide school district file and population totals that matched the 1990 Census boundaries. LMIC provided delineations of the school district boundaries to the Census Bureau, based on map information provided by the County Auditors' offices to LMIC. The Census Bureau automated the 1990 file. Subsequent annual updates have been made to the file to reflect boundary changes, boundary corrections, and school district consolidations. Beginning in 1998, school attendance area boundaries were added. These updates have been done by the Minnesota Legislative Coordinating Commission GIS Office (LCC), the Land Management Information Center (LMIC), and the Office of the Secretary of State, with assistance from the Minnesota Department of Education (formerly the Minnesota Department of Children, Families, and Learning). The steps used to create the original 1990 file, and subsequent updates, are outlined below. CREATION OF THE ORIGINAL 1990 SCHOOL DISTRICT BOUNDARY FILE: 1. Delineation of school district boundaries (LMIC): LMIC's role was to delineate school district boundaries to match Census county, minor civil division (MCD), tract, and block boundaries. LMIC received a set of large-scale (approx 1:800) maps of census boundaries from the Census Bureau. These census boundary maps included MCD, tract, and block boundaries. LMIC obtained school district boundary maps from the auditor's office in each county. LMIC sent blank Minnesota Department of Transportation County Highway Maps to each County Auditor and received back those maps with the school districts delineated on them. The Auditors' Offices drew the boundaries according to their official records. LMIC still has these maps on file. Using the County Auditors' delineation maps, LMIC transferred the school district boundaries onto the 1:800 Census maps. The Census had very specific guidelines, which they enforced. Delineations were to match to within 1/16 of an inch - basically, a fine pencil-width. 2. Automation of School District Boundary Linework: The Census Bureau created the digital file from the maps in two steps: 1. Wherever the linework exactly matched the Census tract, block, MCD, etc., boundaries, the census units were assigned a school district code via a lookup table. 2. Where the school district boundaries did NOT follow the Census boundaries, then the Census Bureau digitized the necessary linework. These base maps for automation eventually came back to the state, and are stored in the State Demographic Center files. 3. Population totals (LMIC): Where the school district boundaries did not match the Census boundaries, LMIC also provided population figures to apportion the Census unit population into the school districts. Rather than apportioning population strictly on the basis of area, this was done through examination of other maps, sometimes, as in the metro area, by counting the houses on aerial photos. The demographic distribution by school district was important as a basis for funding. 4. File distribution (Census Bureau): In 1992, the automated 1990 School District Boundary files were delivered by the Census Bureau to the Legislative Coordinating Commission GIS Office (LCC) in TIGER/Line format. LCC extracted the data from the TIGER format and created an ARC coverage, which was then provided to LMIC and other agencies. LMIC did not receive the digital files back from the Census Bureau for any type of review or verification. Errors in the school district boundary file were reported to the LCC and the Secretary of State's Office. These errors were corrected on the final file. Many of the errors relate to the Census boundary alignment problem - i.e., school district boundary lines were moved to coincide with the appropriate Census boundary. ANNUAL UPDATES AFTER 1990: 1. (1992-1996) The LCC made updates to the file as needed, based on boundary changes, boundary corrections, and school district consolidations. Information on necessary updates was forwarded to LCC by the Secretary of State's Office or the Department of Education (formerly the Minnesota Department of Children, Families, and Learning). Most updates to the files involved school district consolidations. 2. (1997) LMIC obtained the 1996 School District boundary file from the LCC. This file was updated with coding changes and consolidation information for SY1997. As part of a project for the Minnesota Department of Education, LMIC added school attendance area boundaries to the file. 3. (1998-2005) LMIC maintained this file on a yearly basis while adding and changing attendance boundaries based on revisions sent from the school districts. 4. (2006) School district files were brought into a Personal GeoDatabase. Also included were attendance boundaries and school locations, both public and non-public. 5. (2007) Minor modifications made to attendance boundaries. Two new districts were developed through consolidations. 2902 from Russel, Tyler and Ruthton and 2899 from Plainview and Elgin-Millville. 6. (2008) Minor modifications made to attendance boundaries. 7. (2009) Minor modifications made to attendance and some district boundaries. 8. (2010) Parcel data from the following counties was requested and used to update school districts: - Nobles, Pine, Cass, Clay, Hubbard, Olmsted, Sherburne, Steele and Rice counties. - MetroGIS provided parcel data for the 7 metro counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington. Since 2006, school district data has been maintained and edited in Arc/Info geodatabase format. Shapefiles are created for distribution. NOTES ON MISMATCHES OF DATA: 1. The County Auditor's Office is required to delineate school district boundaries by law, and maintains the official record for tax purposes. It must be noted that the school districts also have boundary maps, and that, while the two sets of map boundaries should match, they do not always do so. In cases where the school district and the county auditor records show different boundaries, this should be resolved locally. It becomes an issue for the maintainers of statewide files when updates are obtained from both sources. 2. Mismatches between the Census Boundary lines and the School District lines: although the school district boundary file generally matches Census lines, it does not always do so. Therefore, mismatches can be legitimate, based upon the original maps from the County Auditors' Offices, and can be verified against the maps on file at LMIC and the State Demographic Center. |
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| Section 3 | Spatial Data Organization Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Native Data Set Environment | Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000 | |||
| Geographic Reference for Tabular Data | ||||
| Spatial Object Type | Vector | |||
| Vendor Specific Object Types | Polygon | |||
| Tiling Scheme | State | |||
| Section 4 | Spatial Reference Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Horizontal Coordinate Scheme | UTM | |||
| Ellipsoid | Geodetic Reference System 80 | |||
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| Horizontal Units | Meters | |||
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| Altitude Datum | Not applicable | |||
| Depth Datum | Not applicable | |||
| UTM Zone Number | 15 | |||
| Section 5 | Entity and Attribute Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Entity and Attribute Overview | UNI_TYP (2,2,C) SDNUM (4,4,I) SDNAME (40,40,C) URL (100,100,C) |
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| Entity and Attribute Detailed Citation | UNI_TYP - This is an MDE identifier. It was added to the SY2009-10 shapefile so that Minneapolis and Aitkin school districts, which are both SD #1, can be identified separately. Franconia and Prinsburg are also flagged since Franconia sends its students to Osceola, WI, while Prinsburg sends theirs to M.A.C.C.R.A.Y. 3 - Minneapolis (1), South St. Paul (6) 2 - Franconia (323), Prinsburg (815) 1 - Remaining 335 school districts 0 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport; Camp Ripley military base SDNUM - School district number SDNAME - School district name URL - School district website (hotlinked) |
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| Section 6 | Distribution Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Publisher | Minnesota Department of Education | |||
| Publication Date | 09/12/2009 | |||
| Contact Person Information | Scott Freburg GIS Administrator Minnesota Department of Education 1500 Hwy 36 W. Roseville, MN 55113 Phone: 651-582-8789 FAX: E-mail: scott.freburg@state.mn.us |
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| Distributor's Data Set Identifier | School district boundaries 2009-2010 | |||
| Distribution Liability | The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) does not warrant the results you may obtain by using this dataset. This dataset is provided ''as is'' without express or implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event will MDE be liable for any consequential, incidental or special damages, including any lost profits or lost savings, even if an MDE representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages or any other claim by any third party. | |||
| Transfer Format Name | Shapefile | |||
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| Transfer Size | less than 1 megabyte | |||
| Ordering Instructions | 1. GIS data: this data set is distributed on the internet by clicking below after Online Linkage. Doing so will tell your browser to start downloading a 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - Data in shapefile (.shp, .shx., .dbf) format - Documentation (.html) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this data set that can be read by most word processing software, and an ascii text version of the same notice (NOTICE.TXT) After downloading this 'zip' file, uncompress (unzip) it to extract the files described above. For help, see: http://www.gda.state.mn.us/resource.html?Id=16253#compress 2. School district maps: These maps show district and attendance boundaries, and public and non-public school program locations. Download in PDF format or order printed wallmaps from: http://www.gda.state.mn.us/maps/SchoolDistricts/ |
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| Online Linkage | Click here to download data. (See Ordering Instructions above for details.) By clicking here, you agree to the notice in "Distribution Liability" above. | |||
| Section 7 | Metadata Reference Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Metadata Date | 09/09/2009 | |||
| Contact Person Information | Scott Freburg,
GIS Administrator Minnesota Department of Education 1500 Hwy 36 W. Roseville, MN 55113 Phone: 651-582-8789 FAX: E-mail: scott.freburg@state.mn.us |
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| Metadata Standard Name | Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines | |||
| Metadata Standard Version | 1.2 | |||
| Metadata Standard Online Linkage | http://www.gis.state.mn.us/stds/metadata.htm | |||
This page last updated: 09/09/2009