NCES SCHOOL DISTRICT MAPPING

Presented by Tai Phan, Michael Lippmann, & Brendan CollinsNCES, US Census Bureau, Sanametrix, Blue Raster

2012 Esri International User Conference– July 22, 2012

SCHOOL DISTRICT DEMOGRAPHIC SYSTEM

Allows access to vast collection of

demographic information

Provides geographic data at school,

district and state levels

Informs users on concepts, uses and

applications of data to facilitate

effective use of resources.

MAP VIEWER UPDATES

Built using ArcGIS 10.1 and API for Flex

Running using Amazon EC2 Geocloud Program

Now include mobile version for both iOS and Android Devices

DATA ENHANCEMENTS

Census 2010 Demographics aggregated to school

district boundaries

American Community Survey 2006 – 2010 (5 – year estimates)

Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates

New Data Announcement !

SCHOOL BOUNDARIES GEODATABASE

Collection of school attendance areas Polygons representing the geographic area a

school serves

First release of the data Visualize and download via the SDDS Map Viewer

Schools for the top 350 districts ≈ 20% of Schools ≈ 38% of Students

SCHOOL BOUNDARIES GEODATABASE

Census Bureau to summarize data by school boundaries

Continuation of the SABINS project Headed by Prof. Salvatore Saporito, The College of

William & Mary David Van Riper, Minnesota Population Center www.sabinsdata.org

www.sabinsdata.org

SCHOOL BOUNDARIES

SCHOOL BOUNDARY TECHNOLOGIES

Using ArcSDE 10.1 Centralized Data Repository Data Versioning Multi-user editing

Using ArcGIS Server 10.1 Data visualization Data dissemination

Python (Arcpy) Integrating new data QA/QC Building final data product

SCHOOL BOUNDARY SCHEDULE

Summer 2012 Released Top 350 Districts (based on

enrollment)

Winter 2013 Finish Collection of Top 600 Districts

Late 2014 / 2015 Goal to collect all districts

SDDS GOES MOBILE…

SDDS GOES MOBILE…

Mobile optimized website Works for both iOS and Android devices Can be saved to device home screen for easy

access

View the same datasets as the desktop browser version on your tablet device

Uses ArcGIS Server 10.1 dynamic layers for better performance.

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/ed/mobile/

CONCLUSIONS

SDDS > 115,000 demographic estimates summarized by school district

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/ed/index.asp

Census 2010 and ACS 2010 5-year data now online

Only site where you can visualize and obtain official school boundaries

Now available on your mobile devices http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/ed/mobile/

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Brendan Collinsbcollins@blueraster.com703-842-0172

www.blueraster.comblog.blueraster.com

Tai Phan tai.phan@ed.gov 202-502-7431 nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/index.aspx