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Elementary School Districts, Wisconsin 2019
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Elementary School Districts, Wisconsin 2019
- Originator
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Creation Date
- 2018-02-07
- Publication Date
- 2018-02-07
- Revision Date
- 2018-02-07
- Edition
- 2019
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Collection Title
- Statewide
- Abstract
- This dataset includes boundaries for elementary school district boundaries within the state of Wisconsin. By law, all territory in the state must be included within a public school district. The US Census Bureau identifies three types of school districts. Unifiedschool districts serve children of all grade levels, Elementary primarialy serve students in the elementary grades, and Secondaryprimarily serve children in grades 9-12. Out of 421 school districts in Wisconsin, 44 are considered secondary districts.This layer is an aggregate of county-submitted data for school district boundaries.Each year, there is a chance for reorganizations to take place that either transfer territory between school districts or consolidate/dissolve/create districts. These reorganizations go into effect on July 1st of each year. In 2019, there were no reorganizations involving elementary district boundaries.In the initial school district boundary collection in 2017, DPI did not receive any data layers from GIS officials in Milwaukee County so Milwaukee County's elementary districts were based off Census boundaries. Walworth County's 2017 data submission to DPI only included unified and secondary districts so the elementary district boundaries were generate from the V3 statewide parcel layer. In this third edition of elementary school district boundaries, the boundary lines within Milwaukee and Walworth counties were redone to match data taken from each county's Open Data portal.
- Purpose
- This data is intended for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. [This polygon layer contains the elementary school districts within the state of Wisconsin for 2019.]
- Supplemental Information
- Augmented original metadata with UW-Madison specific elements. Archived dataset at UW-Madison. [In 2018 there was one school district reorganization that involved a secondary school district. This reorganization took place in Iron County and involved a small parcel transfer from Hurley School District (unified) to North Lakeland School District (elementary) and Lakeland UHS (secondary).]
- Temporal Extent
- Time Instant
- 2019-01-01T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -90.045641
- East
- -87.764275
- North
- 46.29993
- South
- 42.479282
- ISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- Place Keyword
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Theme Keyword
-
Polygon
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- FGDC
- Theme Keyword
-
School districts
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Resource Constraints
- Use Limitation
- The layer is intended for your reference use only. It contains the best information the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has to date, but no guarantee of accuracy is made. It should not be used for any land transactions, financial decisions, taxation, surveying, or other similar uses. See summary information about boundary changes in the DPI property transfer log. The DPI is not responsible for data that is misinterpreted or altered in any way. Derived conclusions and analyses generated from this data are not to be considered attributable to the DPI.
- Legal Constraints
- Use Limitation
- Although this data is being distributed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the University as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University in the use of this data, or related materials.
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- unknown
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster St.
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53703
- Country
- US
- Phone
- 608-266-3939
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Shelley Witte
- Position Name
- GIS Technician
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53701
- Country
- US
- shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
- Phone
- 608-266-3939
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 3071
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 9.7
Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Statement
- This layer is the result of aggregation procedures implemented over school district boundary data provided by Wisconsin's 72 counties. Counties that specifically contributed school district boundary data: Adams County Ashland County Barron County Bayfield County Brown County Buffalo County Burnett County Calumet County Chippewa County Columbia County Crawford County Dane County Dodge County Door County Douglas County Dunn County Eau Claire County Florence County Fond du Lac County Forest County Grant County Green County Green Lake County Iowa County Iron County Jackson County Jefferson County Juneau County Kenosha County Kewaunee County La Crosse County Lafayette County Langlade County Lincoln County Manitowoc County Marathon County Marinette County Marquette County Menominee County Monroe County Oconto County Oneida County Outagamie County Pepin County Pierce County Polk County Portage County Price County Racine County Richland County Rock County Sauk County Sawyer County Shawano County Sheboygan County St. Croix County Taylor County Trempealeau County Vernon County Vilas County Walworth County Washburn County Washington County Waukesha County Waupaca County Waushara County Winnebago County Wood County Counties whose school district boundary data was derived from the V301_WisconsinParcels_2017 feature class layer (https://www.sco.wisc.edu/parcels/data/): Clark County Milwaukee County Ozaukee County Rusk County Each county-submitted layer was checked for proper school district code attribute information and general location accuracy of school districts. Layers were reprojected to NAD_1983_HARN_Wisconsin_TM (EPSG: 3071), exported to a geodatabase feature dataset, and checked for topology errors. Topology errors were corrected and newly created Null features were merged into the appropriate adjacent school district polygons. School district name, Census LEA code, Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESA) number, and school district type (unified or secondary) attribute information was added via a field join using the school district code (SDID) number as the join attribute. School district boundary data was built up from the V3 Wisconsin Parcels 2017 dataset for counties that did not submit data or had more than 200 topology errors in their submitted layer. Using a modified ArcGIS model built by Codie See (csee@wisc.edu) at the Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office, parcels were aggregated by school district code. The process resulted in a separate geodatabase feature class for each school district located within a county. The feature classes were merged into a single county layer and checked for topology errors. The errors were corrected and NULL features were merged into the appropriate adjacent school district polygons. Right-of-Ways and rivers that fell along school district boundaries were split in half lengthwise using the Midpoint tool on the Editor tool bar in ArcGIS. Each half was merged into the appropriate adjacent school district polygon. Once all county data was cleaned and the districts were rechecked for locational accuracy, the 72 county shapefiles were merged into a single statewide layer. School districts that crossed county lines and had adjacent polygons were merged together. A final topology check and subsequent fixing of errors occured before a final dissolve that resulted in 378 school district multi-part polygons (368 unifed, 10 secondary) and one multi-part NULL feature. A unified school district dataset and a secondary school district dataset were created through an export of selected features based on their school district type attribute. This dataset does NOT contain the aforementioned multipart NULL feature.
- Process Step
- Description
- Provided access to archived data at UW-Madison.
- Process Date
- 2019-09-16T00:00:00
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Format Version
- 1.0
- Distributor
- Distributor
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Online Access
- https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/WI_Elementary_School_Districts_2019.zip
- Protocol
- WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
- Name
- GeoData@Wisconsin
- Function
- download
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- Topology Level
- geometryOnly
- Vector Object Type
- composite
- Vector Object Count
- 43
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- 38CA1ED4-5705-4D6B-A928-4D852C994BF0
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster St.
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53703
- Country
- US
- Phone
- 608-266-3390
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- Shelley Witte
- Position Name
- GIS Technician
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster Street
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53701
- Country
- US
- shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
- Phone
- 608-266-3939
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2019-09-20
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8
