Elementary, Middle, and High School Attendance Areas (2002)

Mark Greninger — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:53:23 +0000

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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Elementary School	Middle School	High School

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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School District Boundaries (2002)

Mark Greninger — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:04:02 +0000

This dataset contains boundaries of school districts in LA County from 2002.

There are two different kinds of school districts:

Separated Districts – where the Elementary & Middle Schools are administered separately from the High School Districts (William Hart High School receives students form Castaic and Saugus Elementary Schools, for example).
Union Districts – where Elementary, Middle, and High School Districts have a single administrator (Los Angeles Unified, for example).

The source of this data was a project by LA County Office of Emergency Management (Don Campbell) in or around 2002/3, so it may be out of date. The official source of school information in LA County is the LA County Office of Education.

Samples
Countywide	Medium Scale	Large Scale

Data Access

Los Angeles County GIS Data Portal » Chief Executive Office

Elementary, Middle, and High School Attendance Areas (2002)

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School District Boundaries (2002)