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INNOVATIVE DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL

BOUNDARIES

Management Information Systems Conference

Presented by Tai Phan, Andrea Conver & Amy Ramsdell

NCES, Sanametrix & Blue Raster

2/14/2013

School Boundary Geodatabase History

Continuation of the School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS) Headed by Prof. Salvatore Saporito, The College of William & Mary David Van Riper, Minnesota Population Center www.sabinsdata.org

First release in the SDDS Map Viewer in May 2012 2009-2010 school boundaries for the top 350 districts

Census Bureau is summarizing the

data by school boundary

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Current Data

School Boundary Technologies

Using ArcSDE 10.1sp1

Using ArcGIS Server 10.1 EC2

Python (Arcpy)

Data Model

Data Processing Workflow

Collect boundaries Dissolve boundaries into a 1 to 1

format Associate boundaries with NCESSCH

ID Perform QA/QC Sync data to the Cloud

School Boundary QA/QC Procedures

Confirm that all regular schools have a boundary

Confirm that all attributes are correct and correspond to the NCESSCH school ID

Confirm that every geographical area is served by every grade

Contact and Data Tracking Application

Tracks all contact between the district and the Census collection team

Stores original data type

Records the date completed and user name for each processing step

Generates a variety of reports

Public School Boundary Collection and Verification

Collect boundaries for all 13,000+ U.S. school districts

Combination of data collection efforts by Census and a “group-sourced” mapping effort

The 2013-2014 school year will serve as a trial year

School Boundary Collection Workflow

Public School Boundary Collection and Verification Tool Demo

Census Bureau Tabulations

Block rectification to create publicly available population counts and related information

These boundaries can be used for custom tabulations that meet the Census Bureau’s disclosure policies

Provide population counts at the school attendance boundary level

Product is not the same boundary lines as delineated by the districts

The Significance of School Attendance Boundaries

Benefits to the Districts

Benefits to the State

Benefits to social science

Moving Forward

Changes will be made to the workflow and tools based on process reviews and user feedback

The process will become easier and easier as more districts use the online collection and verification tool

For More Information

Andrea Conver(202) 600-8167aconver@sanametrix.com

Amy Ramsdell(703) 842-0177

aramsdell@blueraster.com