Feature Catalog for the Current Unified School Districts Shapefile State-based
The Current Unified School Districts Shapefile State-based contains attributes for all School Districts. These are single-purpose administrative units within which local officials provide public educational services for the area's residents.
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2017-06-01
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U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
301-763-1128
301-763-4710
4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400
Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
geo.geography@census.gov
pointofContact
UNSD.shp
Current Unified School District State-based
false
STATEFP
Current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code
National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing
Series (FIPS) - States/State Equivalents
UNSDLEA
Current unified school district local education agency code. A code of 99997 indicates
a school district that has not been defined.
local school district
resourceProvider
Range Domain Minimum: 00001
Range Domain Maximum: 99997
GEOID
School district identifier; a concatenation of the current state Federal Information
Processing Series (FIPS) code and unified school district local education agency code
The GEOID attribute is a concatenation of the state FIPS code followed by the unified
school district local education agency code. No spaces are allowed between the two codes.
The State FIPS code is taken from "National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009),
Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States". The unified school district
local education agency code is taken from the "UNSDLEA" attribute.
NAME
Current unified school district name
local school district
resourceProvider
Values for this attribute are composed of a set of unified school district names.
As such, they do not exist in a known, predefined set.
LSAD
Current legal/statistical area description code for unified school district
00
Blank
LOGRADE
Current lowest grade covered by school district
local school district
resourceProvider
KG
Kindergarten
local school district
resourceProvider
PK
Pre-Kindergarten
local school district
resourceProvider
01
1st Grade
local school district
resourceProvider
HIGRADE
Current highest grade covered by school district
local school district
resourceProvider
12
12th Grade
local school district
resourceProvider
MTFCC
MAF/TIGER feature class code
G5420
Unified School District
SDTYP
Current school district type
A
Pseudo
B
DoD
C
Interstate
D
BIA
E
Same Name
F
2000 Administrative Area
FUNCSTAT
Current functional status
E
Active government providing special-purpose functions
F
Fictitious entity created to fill the Census Bureau geographic hierarchy
I
Inactive governmental unit that has the power to provide primary special-purpose
functions
N
Nonfunctioning legal entity
ALAND
Current land area (square meters)
Range Domain Minimum: 0
Range Domain Maximum: 9,999,999,999,999
AWATER
Current water area (square meters)
Range Domain Minimum: 0
Range Domain Maximum: 9,999,999,999,999
INTPTLAT
Current latitude of the internal point
Range Domain Minimum: -90.000000
Range Domain Maximum: 90.000000
INTPTLON
Current longitude of the internal point
Range Domain Minimum: -180.000000
Range Domain Maximum: 180.000000