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Public School Locations Wisconsin, 2019

Identification Information

Citation
Title
Public School Locations Wisconsin, 2019
Originator
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Creation Date
2019-03-15
Publication Date
2019-03-15
Edition
1.0
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
mapDigital
Collection Title
Statewide
Abstract
[This dataset includes point location data for public schools in Wisconsin in 2019. The points are placed on or near each school building's centroid. Out of the 2260 schools listed in the attribute table, 2216 have a physical location while 44 are completely virtual campuses. School data was pulled from the Department of Public Instruction's Wisconsin Public School Directory on January 15, 2019.]
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 point layer contains location information for public schools (including non-district charters) in the state of Wisconsin 2019-2020.]
Supplemental Information
Augmented original metadata with UW-Madison specific elements. Archived dataset at UW-Madison.
Temporal Extent
Time Instant
2019-03-26T00:00:00
Bounding Box
West
-92.902428
East
-86.84909
North
46.818066
South
42.468581
ISO Topic Category
location
Place Keyword
Wisconsin
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Theme Keyword
Point
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
FGDC
Theme Keyword
Education
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
RML
Theme Keyword
Public schools
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. 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.]
Status
completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
annually
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
608-266-3390
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
Email
shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
Phone
608-266-3939

Spatial Reference Information

Reference System Identifier
Code
3071
Code Space
EPSG
Version
6.13(9.2.0)

Data Quality Information

Lineage
Statement
Data Source: The Department of Public Instruction's Wisconsin Public Schools Directory (https://dpi.wi.gov/directories). The school data downloaded from the Public Schools Directory was cleaned to ensure proper geocoding of the physical addresses. The addresses were geocoded using the Legislative Technology Services Bureau's geocoding service. This was to get the approximate location of each school. The school building centroid data came from the Microsoft Building Footprint dataset (https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints). Since the building footprint dataset is large and contains no identifying attributes, a subset of the features were extracted as school building candidates from the following process: 1) Features from Wisconsin's V4 Statewide Parcel Data layer (https://www.sco.wisc.edu/parcels/data/) were selected based on the Primary Owner Name field (OWNERNME1). Any parcels whose primary owner attribute contained the wor d 'SCHOOL' were selected. 2) Using ArcMap's Select by Location tool, additional parcels were selected if they contained the geocoded school points or were within a 100 m buffer of those points. 3) Again, using the Select by Location tool, school building candidates were selected from the footprints layer if their centroids were in the selected parcels. These candidates were exported to a new layer. 4) A point layer for the school building candidates was created from the footprint centroids. Using a spatial join, the V4 owner attributes were added for easy reference, Using 2018 NAIP imagery as a backdrop, each geocoded school point was viewed in a GIS and a unique school ID from the geocoded layer was added as a new attribute to the correct building centroid feature. Google Maps was utilized often to confirm the correct location of schools. If a build centroid was not present, a new point feature was placed in the approximate center of the building according to the 2018 NAIP imagery. Once all schools were matched to their building centroids, error-checking was completed on the school building centroids layer before doing a field join to attach the public school data. The attribute table was cleaned up and non-school building features were removed.

Distribution Information

Format Name
Shapefile
Format Version
1.0
Distributor
Online Access
https://web.s3.wisc.edu/rml-gisdata/WI_Public_Schools_2019.zip
Protocol
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
Name
GeoData@Wisconsin
Function
download

Spatial Representation Information

Vector
Topology Level
geometryOnly
Vector Object Type
point
Vector Object Count
2260

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
97E56B91-FF06-4B2F-BA3F-E083012B7534
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
Email
shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
Phone
608-266-3939
Metadata Date Stamp
2019-04-08
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf8
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