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Name: Schools_SFDClip

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Description: This database contains the Common Attributes related to Schools in the Hazus data set. Public Schools: This Public Schools feature dataset is composed of all Public elementary and secondary education facilities in the United States as defined by the Common Core of Data (CCD, https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, https://nces.ed.gov), US Department of Education for the 2019-2020 school year. This includes all Kindergarten through 12th grade schools as tracked by the Common Core of Data. Included in this dataset are military schools in US territories and referenced in the city field with an APO or FPO address. DOD schools represented in the NCES data that are outside of the United States or US territories have been omitted. This feature class contains all MEDS/MEDS+ as approved by NGA. Complete field and attribute information is available in the” Entities and Attributes” metadata section. Geographical coverage is depicted in the thumbnail above and detailed in the Place Keyword section of the metadata. This release includes the addition of 3,917 new records, modifications to the spatial location and/or attribution of 97,771 records, and removal of 4,563 records not present in the NCES CCD data. https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/public-schools Private Schools: This Private Schools feature dataset is composed of private elementary and secondary education facilities in the United States as defined by the Private School Survey (PSS, https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, https://nces.ed.gov), US Department of Education for the 2017-2018 school year. This includes all prekindergarten through 12th grade schools as tracked by the PSS. This feature class contains all MEDS/MEDS+ as approved by NGA. Complete field and attribute information is available in the ”Entities and Attributes” metadata section. Geographical coverage is depicted in the thumbnail above and detailed in the Place Keyword section of the metadata. This release includes the addition of 2,675 new records, modifications to the spatial location and/or attribution of 19,836 records, the removal of 254 records no longer applicable. Additionally, 10,870 records were removed that previously had a STATUS value of 2 (Unknown; not represented in the most recent PSS data) and duplicate records identified by ORNL. https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/private-schools Colleges and Universities: The Colleges and Universities feature class/shapefile is composed of all Post-Secondary Education facilities as defined by the Integrated Post-Secondary Education System (IPEDS, https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, https://nces.ed.gov/), US Department of Education for the 2019-2020 school year. Included are Doctoral/Research Universities, Masters Colleges and Universities, Baccalaureate Colleges, Associates Colleges, Theological seminaries, Medical Schools and other health care professions, Schools of engineering and technology, business and management, art, music, design, Law schools, Teachers colleges, Tribal colleges, and other specialized institutions. Overall, this data layer covers all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and other assorted U.S. territories. This feature class contains all MEDS/MEDS+ as approved by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP) Team. Complete field and attribute information is available in the” Entities and Attributes” metadata section. Geographical coverage is depicted in the thumbnail above and detailed in the "Place Keyword" section of the metadata. This feature class does not have a relationship class but is related to Supplemental Colleges. Colleges and Universities that are not included in the NCES IPEDS data are added to the Supplemental Colleges feature class when found. This release includes the addition of 130 new records, the removal of 428 no longer reported by NCES, and modifications to the spatial location and/or attribution of 6429 records. https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/colleges-and-universities Supplemental Colleges: The Supplemental Colleges feature class/shapefile contains additional postsecondary education features that are not included in the National Center for Education (NCES) Integrated Post Secondary Education System (IPEDS). Included are Doctoral/Research Universities, Masters Colleges and Universities, Baccalaureate Colleges, Associates Colleges, Theological seminaries, Medical Schools and other health care professions, Schools of engineering and technology, business and management, art, music, design, Law schools, Teachers colleges, Tribal colleges, and other specialized institutions. Any results or conclusions based on the POPULATION, TOT_ENROLL, and TOT_EMP values contained in this layer should be verified. This feature class contains all MEDS/MEDS+ as approved by NGA. Complete feature class information is available in the “Entities and Attributes” metadata section for these and other field details. Geographical coverage is detailed in the Place Keyword section of the metadata and the thumbnail graphic above. This feature class does not have a relationship class but is related to Colleges and Universities by the IPEDS ID. This release includes updates to the TYPE and STATUS fields based on the current release of IPEDS on 2768 records. Three (3) new record was added and 4 were removed as their parent records are no longer in the IPEDS data or IPEDS now accounts for that institution. https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/supplemental-colleges Please refer to the Hazus Inventory Technical Manual for the description of the enhanced methodologies used to estimate building areas and valuations. Please note that due to HIFLD Open data gaps and previous enhancements provided by the Hazus user community, the State Databases for HI, MP, and VI were not updated using HIFLD Open data. Refer to the Hazus Tsunami Technical Manual for information regarding data preparation for the Territories and previous release notes for the VI and HI enhanced data descriptions.

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Last Edit Date: 6/18/2026 9:34:40 PM

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