2024-2025 School Year Texas School Districts. Information was collected from all 253 central appraisal districts and from the Texas Education Agency. GIS staff of the Texas Legislative Council created the school district boundaries using the 2020 TIGER/Line Shapefile as base geography and made further corrections to match the school district boundary updates and name changes for the 2024-2025 School Year. These changes include lines that are not census geography. Changes to school district boundaries may include one or all of the following types: school district annexations or de-annexations; school district consolidations, deletions or additions; boundary corrections to the Texas Legislative Council database; boundary adjustments due to more spatially accurate data involving land parcels and survey data received from a county central appraisal district.Note: The 2024-2025 School Year school districts in the council's geographic file are not the same as the districts in the Census Bureau's 2020 TIGER/Line Shapefile. School district population data published by the Texas Legislative Council using the 2024-2025 School Year school districts will not correspond with the school district population data published by the Census Bureau.This geographic data should be used as a reference for determining the boundaries of school districts. This depiction and designation of the school district boundaries do not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.

2024-2025 School Year Council staff collect school district boundary updates from the Texas Education Agency and county central appraisal districts for each school year. The school district shapefile should be used as a reference for determining the boundaries of school districts. The depiction and designation of the school district boundaries do not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement, and they are not legal land descriptions. Please consult the appropriate county central appraisal district for additional information on school district boundaries. SchoolDistricts_SY2425.zip - 2024-2025 school year districts shapefile The school districts shapefile (.shp) is in a compressed file (.zip) format. RED635_SchoolDistrict_Population_SY2425 - Report of 2020 Census population by 2024-2025 school year districts The RED635 report is provided in PDF and Excel formats. Note: The 2024-2025 School Year school districts in the council's geographic file are not the same as the districts in the Census Bureau's 2020 TIGER/Line Shapefile. School district population data published by the Texas Legislative Council using the 2024-2025 School Year school districts will not correspond with the school district population data published by the Census Bureau.

The 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, enacted H.B. 600 (PLAN E120). This plan is effective January 2013. PLAN E2100 is the representation of the current State Board of Education Districts drawn on 2020 census geography. Texas has 15 State Board of Education districts. Each district has an ideal 2020 census population of 1,943,034. For more information, please visit https://redistricting.capitol.texas.gov/Current-districts#sboe-section

2014-2015 Statewide School Districts for Texas. This information was collected from all 253 county central appraisal districts and from the Texas Education Agency. GIS staff of the Texas Legislative Council created the school district boundaries using the 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile as base geography and made further corrections to match the school district boundary updates and name changes for the 2014-2015 School Year. These changes include lines that are not census geography. Changes to school district boundaries may include one or all of the following types: school district annexations or de-annexations; school district consolidations, deletions or additions; boundary corrections to the Texas Legislative Council database; boundary adjustments due to more spatially accurate data involving land parcels and survey data received from a county central appraisal district. Note: The 2014-2015 School Year school districts in the council's geographic file are not the same as the districts in the Census Bureau's 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile. The population data for the council's 2014-2015 school districts does not correspond with the population data reported for the school districts reported by the Census Bureau. Modified by TEA to reflect the merger of La Marque ISD into Texas City ISD effective 01-JUL-2016.Maintenance of this data will normally consist of just uploading a new copy that you obtained from TLC. However, should it ever be necessary to make changes to the data yourself, I strongly suggest you download it, modify the downloaded copy, then use the "Overwrite" button to the right to upload your changes and over-write the entire dataset. While it is possible to edit the data using ArcGIS for desktop directly from this feature service, the process is clumsy since you cannot see all of the features at once. Even worse--once you do that, the data cannot be subsequently over-written. The data ends up being enabled for disconnected editing, which AGOL does to prevent you from stepping on someone else's potential offline edits. You then have to drop and re-publish the feature service, which means you have to then correct the URLs in the public open data site, and make sure the SDL map application can still find the data. So, in practice it turns out to be way more trouble than it is worth to directly edit via the desktop.

Generated by one of the python scripts in the T:\GIS\Scripts folder.This csv file lists the approximate area of each school district in units of square kilometers, US survey acres, and square (US statute) miles. Note that there are two possible values for square miles due to the fact that there are two definitions of the foot--the US survey foot and the "international foot" which was standardized by international agreement in 1959. The data stores the shape_area column in square meters, and the two conversion factors are 2,589,998 square meters to a (US statute) square mile based on the US survey foot, and 2,589,988.11036 square meters to a square mile based on the international foot. This can lead to a small, but possibly significant, difference (roughly .0004% or 4 parts per million) depending on which factor is chosen. The python script that generates this file currently uses the US survey foot conversion factor for both the acres and sq. miles calculation. This decision was arrived at after some study, and is based in part on the fact that the older survey foot is still commonly used for land surveying in the United States.As this was generated directly from the Districts shapefile, the values given should be treated as approximations. This data is not the result of an on-the-ground survey, and should not be used for any critical business, engineering, or legal purpose.

ALL FILES ARE LOCATED AT MY REPOSITORY: https://github.com/christianio123/TexasAttendance

Context

I was curious about factors affecting school attendance so I gathered data from school districts around Texas to have a better idea.

Topic/Purpose

The purpose of the project is to help determine factors associated with student attendance in the state of Texas. No population is targeted as an audience for the project, however, anyone associated in education may find the dataset used (and other data attained but not used) helpful in any questions they may have regarding student attendance in Texas for the first two months of the 2020-2021 academic school year. This topic was targeted specifically due to the abnormalities in the current academic school year.

Data

Daily Student Attendance

Majority of the data in this project was collected by school districts around the state of Texas, public census information, and public COVID 19 data. To attain student attendance information, an email was sent out to 40 school districts around the state of Texas on November 2nd, 2020 using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Of those districts, 19 responded with the requested data, while other districts required purchase of the data due to the number of hours associated with labor. Due to ambiguity in the original message sent to districts, varying types of data were collected. The major difference between the data received was the “daily” records of student attendance and a “summary” of student attendance records so far, this academic school year. School districts took between 10 to 15 business days to respond, not including the holidays. The focus of this project is “daily student attendance” in order to find relationships or any influences from external or internal factors on any given school day. Therefore, of the 19 school districts that responded, 11 sent the appropriate data.
The 11 school districts that sent data were (1) Conroe ISD, (2) Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, (3) Floydada ISD, (4) Fort Worth ISD, (5) Pasadena ISD, (6) Snook ISD, (7) Socorro ISD, (8) Klein ISD, (9) Garland ISD, (10) Dallas ISD, and (11) Katy ISD. However, even within these datasets, there were discrepancies, that is, three school districts sent daily attendance data including student grade level but one school district did not include any other information. Also, of the 11 school districts, nine school districts included student attendance broken down by school while three other school districts only had student attendance with no other attributes. This information is important to explain certain steps in analysis preparation later. Variables used from school district datasets included (a) dates, (b) weekdays, (c) school name, (d) school type, (e) district, and (f) grade level.

School Information, County Description, Metropolitan vs. Non-Metropolitan

  In addition to daily student attendance data, two other datasets were used from the Texas Education Agency with data about each school and school district. In one dataset, “Current Schools”, information about each school in the state of Texas was given such as address, principal, county name, district number and much more as of May 2020. From this dataset, variables selected include (a) school name, (b) school zip, (3) district number, (4) and school type. In the second dataset, “District Type”, attributes of each school district were given such as whether the school district was considered major urban, independent town, or a rural area. From “District Type” dataset, selected variables used were (a) district, district number, Texas Education Agency (TEA) description, and National Center of Education Statistics (NCES). To determine if a county is metropolitan or non-metropolitan, a dataset from the Texas Health and Human Services was used. Selected variables from this dataset include (a) county name and (b) metro area. 

Other Factors: COVID-19

 Student attendance has been noticeably different this academic school year, therefore live COVID-19 data was attained from the New York Times to examine for any relationship. This dataset is updated daily with data being available in three formats (country, state, and county). From this dataset, variables selected were both COVID-19 cases by state, and by county.

Other Factors: Demographics

Each school has a unique student population, therefore census data from 2018 (with best estimate of today’s current population) was used to find the makeup of the population surrounding a school by zip code. From the census data, variables selected were zip code, race/ethnicity, medium income, unemployment rate, and education. These variables were selected to determine differences between school attendance based on the makeup of the population surrounding the school.

Other Factors: Weather

  Weather seems to have an impact on student attendance at schools, so weather data has been included based on county measures.

2018-2019 Statewide School Districts for Texas. This information was collected from all 253 central appraisal districts and from the Texas Education Agency. GIS staff of the Texas Legislative Council created the school district boundaries using the 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile as base geography and made further corrections to match the school district boundary updates and name changes for the 2018-2019 School Year. These changes include lines that are not census geography. Changes to school district boundaries may include one or all of the following types: school district annexations or de-annexations; school district consolidations, deletions or additions; boundary corrections to the Texas Legislative Council database; boundary adjustments due to more spatially accurate data involving land parcels and survey data received from a county central appraisal district. Note: The 2018-2019 School Year school districts in the council's geographic file are not the same as the districts in the Census Bureau's 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile. The population data for the council's 2018-2019 school districts does not correspond with the population data reported for the school districts reported by the Census Bureau.

This feature class represents the school district boundaries for Gregg, Upshur, Harrison, and Smith Counties extracted from 2012-2013 Statewide School Districts for Texas. This information was collected from all 254 county central appraisal districts and from the Texas Education Agency. GIS staff of the Texas Legislative Council created the school district boundaries using the 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile as base geography and made further corrections to match the school district boundary updates and name changes for the 2012-2013 School Year. These changes include lines that are not census geography. Changes to school district boundaries may include one or all of the following types: school district annexations or de-annexations; school district consolidations, deletions or additions; boundary corrections to the Texas Legislative Council database; boundary adjustments due to more spatially accurate data involving land parcels and survey data received from a county central appraisal district. Note: The 2012-2013 School Year school districts in the council's geographic file are not the same as the 2009-2010 School District Review Program (SDRP) districts in the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line Shapefile. The population data for the council's 2012-2013 school districts does not correspond with the population data reported for the 2009-2010 SDRP school districts in the Census Bureau's PL 94-171 file.

2018-2019 Statewide School Districts for Texas. This information was collected from all 253 central appraisal districts and from the Texas Education Agency. GIS staff of the Texas Legislative Council created the school district boundaries using the 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile as base geography and made further corrections to match the school district boundary updates and name changes for the 2018-2019 School Year. These changes include lines that are not census geography. Changes to school district boundaries may include one or all of the following types: school district annexations or de-annexations; school district consolidations, deletions or additions; boundary corrections to the Texas Legislative Council database; boundary adjustments due to more spatially accurate data involving land parcels and survey data received from a county central appraisal district. Note: The 2018-2019 School Year school districts in the council's geographic file are not the same as the districts in the Census Bureau's 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile. The population data for the council's 2018-2019 school districts does not correspond with the population data reported for the school districts reported by the Census Bureau.

2018-2019 Statewide School Districts for Texas. This information was collected from all 253 central appraisal districts and from the Texas Education Agency. GIS staff of the Texas Legislative Council created the school district boundaries using the 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile as base geography and made further corrections to match the school district boundary updates and name changes for the 2018-2019 School Year. These changes include lines that are not census geography. Changes to school district boundaries may include one or all of the following types: school district annexations or de-annexations; school district consolidations, deletions or additions; boundary corrections to the Texas Legislative Council database; boundary adjustments due to more spatially accurate data involving land parcels and survey data received from a county central appraisal district. Note: The 2018-2019 School Year school districts in the council's geographic file are not the same as the districts in the Census Bureau's 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile. The population data for the council's 2018-2019 school districts does not correspond with the population data reported for the school districts reported by the Census Bureau.

2018-2019 Statewide School Districts for Texas. This information was collected from all 253 central appraisal districts and from the Texas Education Agency. GIS staff of the Texas Legislative Council created the school district boundaries using the 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile as base geography and made further corrections to match the school district boundary updates and name changes for the 2018-2019 School Year. These changes include lines that are not census geography. Changes to school district boundaries may include one or all of the following types: school district annexations or de-annexations; school district consolidations, deletions or additions; boundary corrections to the Texas Legislative Council database; boundary adjustments due to more spatially accurate data involving land parcels and survey data received from a county central appraisal district. Note: The 2018-2019 School Year school districts in the council's geographic file are not the same as the districts in the Census Bureau's 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile. The population data for the council's 2018-2019 school districts does not correspond with the population data reported for the school districts reported by the Census Bureau.

2018-2019 Statewide School Districts for Texas. This information was collected from all 253 central appraisal districts and from the Texas Education Agency. GIS staff of the Texas Legislative Council created the school district boundaries using the 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile as base geography and made further corrections to match the school district boundary updates and name changes for the 2018-2019 School Year. These changes include lines that are not census geography. Changes to school district boundaries may include one or all of the following types: school district annexations or de-annexations; school district consolidations, deletions or additions; boundary corrections to the Texas Legislative Council database; boundary adjustments due to more spatially accurate data involving land parcels and survey data received from a county central appraisal district. Note: The 2018-2019 School Year school districts in the council's geographic file are not the same as the districts in the Census Bureau's 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile. The population data for the council's 2018-2019 school districts does not correspond with the population data reported for the school districts reported by the Census Bureau.

2018-2019 Statewide School Districts for Texas. This information was collected from all 253 central appraisal districts and from the Texas Education Agency. GIS staff of the Texas Legislative Council created the school district boundaries using the 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile as base geography and made further corrections to match the school district boundary updates and name changes for the 2018-2019 School Year. These changes include lines that are not census geography. Changes to school district boundaries may include one or all of the following types: school district annexations or de-annexations; school district consolidations, deletions or additions; boundary corrections to the Texas Legislative Council database; boundary adjustments due to more spatially accurate data involving land parcels and survey data received from a county central appraisal district. Note: The 2018-2019 School Year school districts in the council's geographic file are not the same as the districts in the Census Bureau's 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefile. The population data for the council's 2018-2019 school districts does not correspond with the population data reported for the school districts reported by the Census Bureau.

The Texas General Land Office manages approximately thirteen million acres of public lands that are known as Permanent School Fund Lands. These are lands that are used for the purpose of generating revenue for the Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF) and Texas veterans' benefits.The Texas Permanent School Fund was created by the first Texas Constitution in 1845 as a perpetual fund to support the state’s public schools and was seeded with $2 million in 1854. Since that time, the PSF has grown to comprise over $53 billion in assets and will distribute nearly $2.2 billion annually to Texas K-12 schools.

In 2021, the 87th Texas Legislature established the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation (Texas PSF) as a stand-alone special-purpose governmental corporation.Field Definitions:ControlNumber - Identification number assigned to each permanent school fund tract. These numbers are essential for organizing property records, tracking ownership, and facilitating land transactions. It consists of a land type followed by a sequentially assigned number. For more information on land types, please refer to the LandType field definition below.Abstract - In Texas, the term abstract refers to an original land survey describing an area transferred from the public domain by either the Republic of Texas or the State of Texas. Each survey recorded is assigned an abstract number, which is unique within the county in which the survey falls. Because Texas has never performed a uniform statewide land survey, these original surveys called "Patent Surveys" constitute the State's Official Land Survey System.Block - A block is a defined set of original land surveys. A block has an identifying name and/or number, and surveys within it are usually consecutively numbered, mile-square sections. Land grants from the State of Texas to railroad companies were often patented in blocks and sections. The term block is also used as a unit of a subdivision, i.e., subdivision/block/lot.Section - A section refers to a square land survey measuring exactly one mile on each side. Some of the land transferred from the public domain by the state of Texas was surveyed and patented in units of square miles. The Texas General Land Office officially considers these units to be "sections". Also, it was common that larger land grants, such as school lands and capitol lands, were subsequently surveyed into square mile units for the convenience of sale; these surveys are also called sections. In addition, the term "section" is commonly used to describe surveys in a group that have been assigned consecutive survey numbers, even though some of them do not have the proper shape or size to truly be sections.Township - area numbered according to each relative position to a north-south meridian and east-west baseline. Township boundaries are multiples from these baselines and meridians.Survey - A survey is a certified measured description of a piece of land. The term sometimes refers to the land itself. In Texas, "original surveys" were performed as part of the patenting process whereby land was transferred from the public domain to a recipient. These "patent surveys," recorded at the Texas General Land Office, constitute an official land grid for the State and are the basis for subsequent land surveys.Basefile - unique identifiers used in the state’s land survey system. These assigned numbers have followed many series as Texas was being settled and as many Sales Acts were passed. This number serves as the identifier for the physical file in which all of the documents pertaining to the tracts are housed.County - the county in which the land tract is currently locatedDeedAcres - the total official acreage of the tract as is stated on the land record. For tracts that consist of multiple parts, the total acreage is populated on the largest part and all other parts are assigned zero acreage. Calculate geometry would be the best method to determine the estimated acreage of the smaller parts.LandType - number based on categories of land transactions established by the Texas General Land Office based on level of ownership and oversight. These categories also determine which state agency is the benefactor of any revenue that is generated. You can find further descriptions of these land types here: https://gisweb.glo.texas.gov/webpage/GISWebLegend.pdfGrantee - the person of concern to whom the land was actually awarded.

Explore our new interactive population density maps for MSA, County, Tract, Block Group, Place, School District, and ZCTA geographies in Texas. These pop density maps are based on the latest ACS 5-Year estimates and TIGER/Line data. Inspired by a map of the same produced by the Texas Demography Center.