FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2005

TITLE: FLORIDA PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS 2005

Geodataset Name:       GC_SCHOOLS_SEP05
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    POINT
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains 2005 Private and Public School Information for the State of Florida. The data contains selected fields denoting the physical address, school number, district, and contact information for schools located in Florida.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    University of Florida GeoPlan Center
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
DATE OF AUTOMATION OF SOURCE:      Sept. 2005
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: GC_SCHOOLS_SEP05.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE N. DECIMAL DEGREES
FID
4 OID ---
Shape
0 Geometry ---
STATUS
1 String ---
SCORE
4 Number ---
SIDE
1 String ---
SCHOOL_ID
9 Number ---
NAME
100 String ---
ADDRESS
65 String ---
CITY
40 String ---
ZIPCODE
9 Number ---
PHONE
16 String ---
OPERATING
75 String ---
OP_CLASS
12 String ---
ENROLLMENT
6 Number ---
PROGRAMS
40 String ---
COMMON_USE
4 String ---
USE
50 String ---
YR_BUILT
4 Number ---
TYPE
35 String ---
ACTIVITY
10 String ---
NCES_ID_CO
12 String ---
LOW_GRADE
10 String ---
HIGH_GRADE
10 String ---
TITLE1SCHO
14 String ---
TEACHERS
11 Number ---
FREE_LUNCH
14 Number ---
REDUCED_LU
15 Number ---
DESCRIPT
100 String ---
FLAG
5 String ---
UPDATE_DAY
8 Date ---
AUTOID
6 Number ---
FGDLAQDATE
8 Date ---

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
FID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

STATUS ESRI item which denotes the status of the geocoded address whether it was matched or not).

SCORE ESRI item which denotes the score with which the address was matched to a feature in the reference data.

SIDE ESRI item which denotes the side of the street to which the address was matched (for geocoding service styles that can match an address to a particular side of a street).

SCHOOL_ID Unique identifier number of the School as recorded in the School table

NAME School designation

ADDRESS A description of a facility's physical location providing direction for delivery and provision of emergency services

CITY City of facility's physical location

ZIPCODE US postal delivery designation of facility's physical location

PHONE The phone number of the school facility.

OPERATING The responsible organization for management and operation of a facility (e.g., public, private, quasi-public)

OP_CLASS Classification of the operating entity

ENROLLMENT Total number of students attending a school

PROGRAMS A program that is distinguishable from the typical program offered by a data entity

COMMON_USE Location of two or more uses in one facility or on common grounds so as to share common facilities

USE Description of co-located use, if applicable

YR_BUILT The year a structure was built for determining possible historical significance

TYPE Educational grade ranges by category (e.g., elementary, middle, high, etc.)

ACTIVITY No description

NCES_ID_CO The NCES school ID number

LOW_GRADE The lowest grade level at the school

HIGH_GRADE The highest grade level at the school

TITLE1SCHO Designation of the school as a title 1 school

TEACHERS Number of teachers

FREE_LUNCH Number of students receiving free lunch

REDUCED_LU Number of students receiving reduced lunch

DESCRIPT FGDL added item based on NAME

FLAG Type of update that occurred
A = Attribute edit

S = Spatial edit

B = Both attribute and spatial edit

N = New

D = Delete

NIN = Not in new (See data lineage for more details - A5)


UPDATE_DAY The last day the file was updated

AUTOID Internal ID #

FGDLAQDATE The date FGDL aquired the data from the source.

USER NOTES:
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.
The following dataset was Geocoded against ARC Logistics Route GDT
Roads. Address information was obtained via a website or through a
spreadsheet gained from an agency. The data was reformatted using a
text editor in order to create data that could be imported into
excel. From this data, dbfs were created that could then be used
for Geocoding/Address Matching.

What is Geocoding? Geocoding is term used to describe the act of address matching. Geocoding is the process of finding a geographic location (x, y point) for an address (such as street number and name, city, state, and ZIP Code) on a map. Geocoding is based off the typical address scheme for the US, in which one side of the street contains even house numbers while the other side of the street contains odd house numbers.

The geocoding process uses an algorithm to find the geographic location of addresses. First, a street segment is identified using the zip code and street name. Next, the geographic location of the address is matched using the building number to determine how far down the street and on which side of the street the building is located.

Geocoding Accuracy The locational accuracy of geocoded addresses may vary from urban to rural areas due to the algorithm used to generate the geographic locations of addresses. The algorithm assumes that the size of parcels are equivalent along a road route. This assumption tends to be more consistent in urban areas, where the size of parcels vary less than in rural areas. Consequently, the results of geocoded addresses in urban areas are usually more reliable than those in rural areas.

For example, the locational accuracy of rural addresses can be slightly off because some parcels along a rural route may be 15 acres while others may be 2.5 acres, but the geocoding algorithm assumes that the addresses are distributed evenly along the route.

A note concerning data scale:

Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale 
datasetsare not suitable for some project, analysis, or
modelling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best
available data.

1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that 
are at the county level.

1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base 
mapping such as property parcel boundaries.

1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that 
are at the multi-county or regional level.

1:250000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that 
are at the regional or state level or larger.

Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should 
be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with 
your data before using it for projects or analyses. Every 
effort has been made to supply the user with data 
documentation. For additional information, see the 
References sectionand the Data Source Contact section of 
this documentation. For more information regarding scale 
and accuracy, see our web pages at:

http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:
Florida Department of Education
Turlington Building, Suite 1514, 325 West Gaines Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399
(850) 245-0505
http://www.fldoe.org/

School Board of Alachua County: http://www.sbac.edu/

Florida Department of Environmental
FDEP
2600 Blair Stone Rd, Twin Towers MS 6520
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400
(850) 245-8238
Protection: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
NCES public school data is gathered by CCD (Common Core of Data), 
Public school data is from the 2003-2004 school year.

NCES private school data is gathered by PSS (Private School Universe Survey), 
Private school data is from the 2003-2004 school year.

NCES college data is gathered by IPEDS, College data 
is from the 2004-2005 school year.

Step -1:
NCES Public and Private School Data were down loaded
from: http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/
The database files were geocoded against ARC Logistics 
Route GDT Roads, and finally converted into a shapefile 
with the FGDL Albers HPGN map projection.

Step - 2:
Obtained public school information from Alachua County 
School Board website: http://www.sbac.edu/~ir/dists.html 

Obtained non-public school information from the Non-Public
 Schools Directory listed on the Florida Department of Education 
website: http://www.firn.edu/doe/choice/ndirect.htm

Obtained Higher Education information; Private College, 
Public College, Jr. College, and Vo-Tech School address 
information from the Department of Environmental Protection 
GIS Dept.

From these websites, GeoPlan copied school information into 
a text file format and then converted it to a database file. The 
database file was geocoded against ARC Logistics Route GDT 
Roads, and finally converted into a shapefile with the FGDL 
Albers HPGN map projection.

Step - 3:
A select by location function was used to remove the 
duplicated spatial information that occurred from Step - 2.  

Step - 4:
Once this duplicate information was removed the shapefile 
created in Step - 3 was then joined to the shapefile created 
in Step - 1.

(A5) Some Information from the 2004 geocoded data set was 
retained; this data was retained for three reasons: 

 1. The Yellow Pages and Super Pages Online are paid 
advertising sites, some facilities may wish to discontinue 
their advertising with those companies but they may still 
exist at that address/location (i.e. Churches etc). 
 2. The address might have changed slightly (i.e. suite 
number, building number, or zip code) which may have 
affected the addresses ability to be geocoded with the 
2005 GDT roads dataset. 
 3. The facility no longer exists. 

Because facilities in reasons one and two may still exist 
in the real world all the 2004 geocoded features that were 
not reproduced in the 2005 geocode update were re-geocoded 
against the 2005 GDT roads dataset.  These facilities were 
then added to the 2005 geocoded dataset. Facilities that 
are part of this scenario are represented with a value of 'NIN' 
(Not In New) in the field called FLAG.

-Added DESCRIPT field based on NAME
-Socio-Cultural Effect data fields and definitions were added. 
 FLAG, UPDATE_DAY, AUTOID, ID, NAME, ADDRESS, 
 CITY, STATE, ZIPCODE, OPERATING, OP_CLASS, 
 ENROLLMENT, PROGRAMS, COMMON_USE, USE,
 YR_BUILT, FGDLAQDATE.
-For facilities that previously existed the permanent auto 
 identification number [auto id] was carried over from the
 2004 SCE base data to the 2005 SCE updates. For new 
 facilities autoids were created.
-Total records = 6751
Process Date: 20050901

MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

DATA SOURCE CONTACT (S):

Name:
Abbr. Name:
Address:


Phone:

Web site:
E-mail:
Contact Person:
         Phone:
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University of Florida GeoPlan Center
GeoPlan
431 Architecture, PO Box 11570
Gainesville, FL
32611-570


http://www.fgdl.org data@fgdl.org Kate Norris

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                        PO Box 115706
                        Gainesville, FL  32611-5706
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