School District Maps

The mapping of school districts is left to the individual districts, and therefore the maps produced vary in quality, availability, and styles.

The potential for quality, standardized maps exists with the use of GIS. The needed database could come from the combination of the Census Bureau's TIGER extracts and 2000 census data, and data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI).

The boundary of a school district is critical for correctly determining the property base for that district. A geo-referenced database would be an effective tool for that purpose, and would also be invaluable for other educational planning.

Since school district boundaries comprise one of its files in the TIGER database, TIGER/Line extracts would provide the spatial component in a school district base map. The attributes for individual school districts, such as attendance area delineations, would come from the DPI. Socio-economic information for the district can be derived from census data and then added as attributes to the database.