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All School Districts, Wisconsin 2023
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- All School Districts, Wisconsin 2023
- Originator
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Creation Date
- 2018-02-07
- Publication Date
- 2018-02-07
- Revision Date
- 2018-02-07
- Edition
- 6.0
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Abstract
- This dataset includes boundaries for all 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. Unified school districts serve children of all grade levels, Elementary primarily serve students in the elementary grades, and Secondary primarily serve children in grades 9-12. Out of 421 school districts in Wisconsin, 43 are considered elementary districts, 10 are secondary districts, and 368 are unified districts. Elementary and secondary school districts overlap. 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 2023, there were four (4) reorganizations that involved unified school districts and no reorganizations involving secondary or elementary districts. The reorganizations took place in Dane, Marathon, and Waukesha counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Edgar and Marathon City, West Allis-West Milwaukee and New Berlin, and Verona and Madison Metropolitan. Please refer to the property transfer log for more information.This is not an official authoritative statewide dataset for unified school district boundaries nor does one exist for Wisconsin. The boundaries reflect tax parcel data submitted by Wisconsin counties in January of each year. These boundaries are updated annually around July 1 to reflect boundary changes from the reorganization process and as needed throughout the rest of the year.
- Purpose
- This dataset includes boundaries for all school districts within the state of Wisconsin. Valid for the 2023-2024 school year.
- Supplemental Information
- In 2023, there were four (4) reorganizations that involved unified school districts and no reorganizations involving secondary or elementary districts. The reorganizations took place in Dane, Marathon, and Waukesha counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Edgar and Marathon City, West Allis-West Milwaukee and New Berlin, and Verona and Madison Metropolitan. Please refer to the property transfer log for more information. In 2022, there were seven (7) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Adams, Dane, Marathon, and Waukesha counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Adams-Friendship Area and Westfield, Wausau and Marathon City, Middleton-Cross Plains Area and Madison Metropolitan, Waukesha and Elmbrook, and Hamilton and Menomonee Falls. Please refer to the property transfer log for more information. In 2021, there were six (6) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Dane, Marathon, and St. Croix counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Merrill Area and Athens, DeForest Area and Madison Metropolitan, Middleton-Cross Plains Area and Madison Metropolitan, and Somerset and Hudson. In 2020, there were six (6) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Dane, St. Croix, and Waukesha counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Mineral Point and Iowa-Grant; Norris and Mukwonago; Middleton-Cross Plains and Madison Metropolitan; New Richmond and Somerset; and Middleton-Cross Plains and Wisconsin Heights. In 2019 there were eleven (11) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Calumet, Dane, Eau Claire, Iowa, La, Crosse, St. Croix, and Winnebago counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: In 2018, there were twelve (12) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Dane, Fond du Lac, Iron, Iowa, La, Crosse, Polk, St. Croix, and Washington counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Turtle Lake and Amery; Hurley (unified) and Lakeland UHS (secondary) / North Lakeland (elementary); West Salem and La Crosse; Waupun and Rosendale-Brandon; Middleton Cross-Plains and Madison Metropolitan; Osceola and Somerset; Mineral Point and Pecatonica
- Temporal Extent
- Time Instant
- 2023-11-30T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -92.88811399999527
- East
- -86.8054149999956
- North
- 47.08062099999761
- South
- 42.49198299999784
- Bounding Box
- West
- -92.964215
- East
- -86.709179
- North
- 47.083097
- South
- 42.457991
- ISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- Place Keyword
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Theme Keyword
-
Boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- 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
- Access Restrictions
- otherRestrictions
- Other Restrictions
- 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.
- Legal Constraints
- Use Restrictions
- otherRestrictions
- Other Restrictions
- Other Constraints
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- annually
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Position Name
- -
- Delivery Point
- 125 S. Webster St.
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53703
- Country
- US
- Phone
- 608-266-3390
- 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
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. The original statewide layer was developed using county school district boundary data submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) in 2017. In some places, these boundaries reflected school district information from tax parcels, in other places they did not. In 2020, the entire statewide layer was modified to wholly reflect the most recently released tax parcel data which is maintained at the county level.
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- File Geodatabase Feature Class
- Format Version
- 1.0
- Distributor
- -
- Online Access
- https://web.s3.wisc.edu/rml-gisdata/WI_School_Districts_All_2023.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
- 421
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- 82A95AF0-1C14-44A9-8B16-028C92E99497
- 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
- 2024-03-15
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8
