This data set attempts to represent the point locations of every school program in the state of Minnesota that is currently operational and reporting to the Minnesota Department of Education.Maintenance of these locations are a result of an ongoing project to identify current school program locations where Food and Nutrition Services Office (FNS) programs are utilized. The FNS Office is in the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). GIS at MDE modified the data set using school building locations provided by the school districts and program locations from an MDE database. School District buildings are annually updated but there may remain errors due to the number of program locations and the frequency with which they move from building to building in a District. For the 2019-20 school year, multiple cross-checks with the "MDE ORG" database were conducted for QA/QC and accuracy. Nevertheless, errors will remain.The records in this dataset cover all school program locations that MDE currently has in a spatial format. Note that multiple programs may occur at the same location and are represented as separate records. For example, a junior and a senior high school may be in the same building, but each has a separate record in the data layer.PLEASE NOTE: For the 2019-2020 school year, the web mapping service for this layer has moved.
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