Boundaries of high school attendance area covered by each public school in Los Angeles County. Attendance Areas are used to determine which school a student will go to.
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This data was last updated in 2002, so use this data with caution. It was created by Don Campbell at the County’s Emergency Operations Center (CEO OEM) who used the following methods to develop the dat:.
- A polygon coverage of school district boundaries from Joyce Bixler’s files (origin unknown) – the arcs in this coverage were used as the start of this dataset. When this “District” coverage disagreed with fresher info from the school districts, the district boundaries were altered to follow the more recent information.
- Maps (usually paper) from each school district – various sizes, various scales, various levels of precision. Some districts provided only lists of streets and address ranges coded to each school. Occasionally a trip was required to a school district office to copy map information from a wall map and to consult with district personnel. (Original information is on file at the L A County Emergency Operations Center.)
- L A County Office of Education, Public Schools Directory 2000 – 2001
- Phone calls to about half the districts listed, to verify and update. Completed March 2002.
- Eagle Aerial Imaging. Aerial photography of southern L A County and Santa Clarita/Castaic ortho rectified. Useful for “back fence” boundaries.
- L A County Assessor’s Parcel coverages.
- Rectified USGS topographic sheets, 1:24,000 scale.
Disclaimer for LAUSD information:
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) uses Health and Human Services Planning Area boundaries to approximate the High School, Middle School, and Elementary School Attendance Areas and are used for planning and data analysis only. These Boundaries are constructed to create a map or maps of LAUSD with contiguous and non-overlapping areas for geographic planning and mapping purposes. While the maps will allow you to examine geographic units within the district that are useful for planning purposes, they are not designed to enable others to determine the schools of attendance available to residents based on a particular address.
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Thanks Chris – as I noted on your other post, you can use our Location Management System (http://gis.lacounty.gov/lms) to suggest changes. Each of the Points of interest has a URL link that points back to the direct URL on the LMS system where you can comment (just like this).
As you found out, the Points of Interest is the way to go for Schools. If you find errors, you can use our Location Management System (http://gis.lacounty.gov/lms) to suggest changes.
Ah – now I see the order of the posts! The POI file is the better way to go.
There may be a quicker way, but we pull out the LA City schools from the state list: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/si/ds/fspubschls.asp. Note the StatusType field – you may not want closed or pending schools depending on your research question.
Warren,
They are in the points of interest file.
Does anyone have a table or source for school address locations .. looking for LA City schools .. I could always build a table from here http://notebook.lausd.net/pls/ptl/ptl_apps.schoolguide.render Thanks!