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Title: Building the School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS): Collecting, Processing, and Modeling K to 12 Educational Geography.

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2013

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ISSN: 1045-8077

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PMID: 29151773

Abstract: The School Attendance Boundary Information System is a social science data infrastructure project that assembles, processes, and distributes spatial data delineating K through 12th grade school attendance boundaries for thousands of school districts in U.S. Although geography is a fundamental organizing feature of K to 12 education, until now school attendance boundary data have not been made readily available on a massive basis and in an easy-to-use format. The School Attendance Boundary Information System removes these barriers by linking spatial data delineating school attendance boundaries with tabular data describing the demographic characteristics of populations living within those boundaries. This paper explains why a comprehensive GIS database of K through 12 school attendance boundaries is valuable, how original spatial information delineating school attendance boundaries is collected from local agencies, and techniques for modeling and storing the data so they provide maximum flexibility to the user community. An important goal of this paper is to share the techniques used to assemble the SABINS database so that local and state agencies apply a standard set of procedures and models as they gather data for their regions.

Url: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29151773

Url: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=PMC5693243

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Authors: Saporito, Salvatore; Van Riper Ma, David; Wakchaure, Ashwini

Periodical (Full): Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association

Issue: 2

Volume: 25

Pages: 49-62

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