This file represents a statewide compilation of the boundaries of all independent, common, and special school districts in the state of Minnesota. Minnesota school districts are asked to report any changes to their district boundaries annually. With the exception of consolidations, dissolutions, or other financial cooperation agreements, the reporting is not mandatory. As independent special purpose government organizations, school districts determine their own district & attendance boundaries, working with neighboring districts and county auditors to ensure proper taxation. The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) plays no role in determining the actual boundaries.

Since 2008, district boundaries have also been reviewed against the school district coding provided in county parcels, where it exists. (Parcel data are supplied by counties to MnGeo, who in turn share that with MDE.) The results are overall increased accuracy, but also increased complexity. Conversations with county GIS coordinators and auditors are ongoing with respect to the complex situations reflected within county parcel data, and whether or not these are accurate representations of school district boundaries. Since school year 2021, many "islands" or other unusual situations have been eliminated or simplified as a result of those conversations.

This file is not intended to represent the "true" boundaries with respect to taxation, but as generalized boundaries focused on ensuring accurate representation in residential areas. As a result, starting in 2021, boundaries have been simplified by removing complex situations in non-residential areas, such as transportation Right-of-Way (ROW), publicly-owned land, tax exempt land, or water. This simplification work is expected to continue each year.

This data is now also available in CSV format. OBJECTID and Shape columns have been removed from that format.

Taxable School Districts derived from polygons defined from School boundary lines and Hennepin County Auditor descriptions of this taxable area. Sub-district polygons are defined for those districts that have established sub-districts for election purposes. The field NAME_TXT contains the Name for each School District

Link to Attribute Table Information: http://gis.hennepin.us/OpenData/Metadata/School%20Districts.pdf

Use Limitations: This data (i) is furnished "AS IS" with no representation as to completeness or accuracy; (ii) is furnished with no warranty of any kind; and (iii) is not suitable for legal, engineering or surveying purposes. Hennepin County shall not be liable for any damage, injury or loss resulting from this data. General questions about this dataset, including errors, omissions, corrections and/or updates should be directed to the Survey Division, Resident and Real Estate Services Department, Hennepin County at 612-348-3131.

© This data set is maintained by Hennepin County Resident and Real Estate Services Survey Division. This layer is a component of Datasets for Hennepin County AGOL and Hennepin County Open Data..

This file represents the boundaries of all public school attendance areas in the state of Minnesota for school year 2024-25. Attendance areas attempt to represent the detailed breakdowns that determine where students attend elementary, middle, and high schools. These areas are unique to each public school system. The "dissolved" school district boundaries, without attendance area breakdowns, are available in a separate resource. For many districts that operate only a few schools, attendance area breakdowns are not used or defined; in those cases, attendance areas are equivalent to district boundaries.

Each year Minnesota public school systems are asked to report any changes to their elementary, middle and high school attendance area boundaries. This file was developed from this annual information. Users should be aware that reporting compliance is not mandatory, so the information included is only as accurate as provided by those independent, common, and special school districts. Actual decisions on where students attend which schools is entirely decided by the districts, and changes are not always reported to MDE.

Please also see accuracy notes in the school district boundary dataset, many of which also apply to this layer.

This is an excerpt from a statewide dataset produced by the Minnesota Department of Education. This dataset only includes school locations and does not include district offices, area learning centers, after school programs and other educational program locations that are included in the complete statewide dataset. The point locations of school programs are a result of an ongoing project to identify current school program locations where Food and Nutrition Services Office (FNS) programs are utilized. The FNS Office is in the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). GIS at MDE modified the data set using school building locations provided by the school districts and program locations from an MDE database. School District buildings are annually updated but there may remain errors due to the amount of program locations and the frequency with which they move from building to building in a District. Note that multiple programs may occur at the same location and are represented as separate points. For example, a junior and a senior high school may be in the same building, but each has a separate record and point in the data layer. This dataset includes programs for the 2015-2016 school year and is updated annually.Attribute Descriptions:The attribute descriptions can be viewed in the original metadata from the Minnesota Department of Education, which is accessible here.

© This dataset is created and maintained by the Minnesota Department of Education. General questions about this or any other Hennepin County GIS products, including errors, omissions, corrections and/or updates should be directed to the Hennepin County GIS Office at gis.info@hennepin.us or 612-596-9484.

This is an excerpt from a statewide dataset produced by the Minnesota Department of Education. This dataset only includes school locations and does not include district offices, area learning centers, after school programs and other educational program locations that are included in the complete statewide dataset. The point locations of school programs are a result of an ongoing project to identify current school program locations where Food and Nutrition Services Office (FNS) programs are utilized. The FNS Office is in the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). GIS at MDE modified the data set using school building locations provided by the school districts and program locations from an MDE database. School District buildings are annually updated but there may remain errors due to the amount of program locations and the frequency with which they move from building to building in a District. Note that multiple programs may occur at the same location and are represented as separate points. For example, a junior and a senior high school may be in the same building, but each has a separate record and point in the data layer. This dataset includes programs for the 2015-2016 school year and is updated annually.Attribute Descriptions:The attribute descriptions can be viewed in the original metadata from the Minnesota Department of Education, which is accessible here.

© This dataset is created and maintained by the Minnesota Department of Education. General questions about this or any other Hennepin County GIS products, including errors, omissions, corrections and/or updates should be directed to the Hennepin County GIS Office at gis.info@hennepin.us or 612-596-9484.

This file is a geodatabase that includes boundaries for all public school district and public school attendance areas throughout Minnesota, one file for each school year 2002/03 through 2009/10. Every year Minnesota school districts report changes to their elementary, middle and high school attendance area and district boundaries. Each file in this group was developed from this annual information and is now provided as historical information. This metadata summarizes the content of these files but individual metadata records are also included for each annual file.

This historical archive is a geodatabase that contains boundaries of all public school districts in the state of Minnesota for school years 1989-90 through 1999-2000. Minnesota school districts report any changes to their elementary, middle and high school attendance area boundaries annually. Each file in this group was developed from this annual information and is now provided as historical information. This school district file was dissolved from the statewide attendance boundary file to show just the statewide school district boundaries.

This dataset tracks annual distribution of students across grade levels in Pillager Public School District and average distribution per school district in Minnesota

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) generates and publishes maps that show school district boundaries and approximate charter school locations throughout the state of Minnesota.
The maps on the site linked here are intended to give approximation of boundaries and locations and should not be used where legal or precise geographic placement is required. To obtain a district map,
visit the site, choose "District" within the "Category" pick list, then choose the District of interest in the following pick list. A list of "Available Files" will appear - click on the "PDF" link
under "Data Files" to download the latest PDF map of the district. The newest maps are optimized for printing at a size of 11x17.

This dataset tracks annual hispanic student percentage from 1994 to 2023 for Pillager Public School District vs. Minnesota

This dataset tracks annual two or more races student percentage from 2012 to 2023 for Pillager Public School District vs. Minnesota

This historical archive is a geodatabase that contains annual files for public school district center locations in the state of Minnesota for school years 2006-07 through 2008-09. The point locations of school district service offices were developed at MDE to complement other school locational information. Many school district offices, or service centers, are located in a current elementary, middle or high school building. Some have their own facility. All locations have been developed and compared to existing school locations or address matched using The Lawrence Group street centerline address files. Unmatched locations were matched through school district websites or Google maps. Some locations may be incorrect as a full QA/QC process has not been completed.
This metadata summarizes the content of these files but individual metadata records are also included for each annual file.

This file is a geodatabase that contains public school program locations in the state of Minnesota for school years 2002/03 - 2008/09. Before SY2009-10, school program locations were stored in separate files for different school programs (public, nonpublic, and charter, and public school district center). Beginning in 2009 program locations were combined into one file and attributes are used to distinguish the school types. Files for years after 2009 are posted seperately (see Associated Data Sets). Each file in this group was developed from annual information and is now provided as historical information. This metadata summarizes the content of these files but individual metadata records are also included for each annual file

The point locations of school programs are a result of an ongoing project to identify current school program locations where Food and Nutrition Services Office (FNS) programs are utilized. The FNS Office is in the Department of Education. GIS at MDE modified the data set using school building locations provided by the school districts and program locations from an MDE database. The records cover traditional K-12 programs. New for SY2006-07 were Charter and other public schools or buildings that are a part of the public school system. These were added to the public schools and are delineated using separate attributes (see lineage). Note that multiple programs may occur at the same location and are represented as separate points. For example, a junior and a senior high school may be in the same building, but each has a separate record and point in the data layer.

This dataset tracks annual white student percentage from 1991 to 2023 for Pillager Public School District vs. Minnesota

This dataset tracks annual distribution of students across grade levels in Bemidji Public School District and average distribution per school district in Minnesota

This dataset attempts to represent the point locations of every educational program in the state of Minnesota that is currently operational and reporting to the Minnesota Department of Education. It can be used to identify schools, various individual school programs, school districts (by office location), colleges, and libraries, among other programs. Please note that not all school programs are statutorily required to report, and many types of programs can be reported at any time of the year, so this dataset is by nature an incomplete snapshot in time.

Maintenance of these locations are a result of an ongoing project to identify current school program locations where Food and Nutrition Services Office (FNS) programs are utilized. The FNS Office is in the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). GIS staff at MDE maintain the dataset using school program and physical addresses provided by local education authorities (LEAs) for an MDE database called "MDE ORG". MDE GIS staff track weekly changes to program locations, along with comprehensive reviews each summer. All records have been reviewed for accuracy or edited at least once since January 1, 2020.

Note that there may remain errors due to the number of program locations and inconsistency in reporting from LEAs and other organizations. In particular, some organization types (such as colleges and treatment programs) are not subject to annual reporting requirements, so some records included in this file may in fact be inactive or inaccurately located.

Note that multiple programs may occur at the same location and are represented as separate records. For example, a junior and a senior high school may be in the same building, but each has a separate record in the data layer. Users leverage the "CLASS" and "ORGTYPE" attributes to filter and sort records according to their needs. In general, records at the same physical address will be located at the same coordinates.

This data is now available in CSV format. For that format only, OBJECTID and Shape columns are removed, and the Shape column is replaced by Latitude and Longitude columns.

This dataset tracks annual black student percentage from 2002 to 2022 for Pillager Public School District vs. Minnesota

This dataset tracks annual reading and language arts proficiency from 2011 to 2022 for Pillager Public School District vs. Minnesota

This in-progress historical archive is a geodatabase that contains boundaries of all public school districts in the state of Minnesota for each school year in the 2020 decade. Minnesota school districts are asked to report any changes to their elementary, middle and high school attendance area boundaries annually. Each file in this group was developed from this annual information and is now provided as historical information. This school district file was dissolved from the statewide attendance boundary file to show just the statewide school district boundaries. This metadata summarizes the content of these files, but individual metadata records are also included for each annual file.

This data set represents footprints of buildings that primarily serve as sites for delivering non-charter, K-12 public education in Minnesota. The goal is to discretely and uniquely identify specific buildings, designated by specific street addresses, that house one or more active public school programs. More specifically, school programs classified as elementary, middle, junior high, senior high, or secondary, delivered by independent, common, or special school districts.

In contrast to MDE's annually updated school program locations data set that uniquely identifies specific programs, when a single building houses multiple programs, this data set will have just one record. For example, a single building might house a district office, an ECFE program, an elementary program, and a middle school program. In this case, the name assigned will be for the "highest classification" - in other words, the middle school program. This is often an oversimplified name for the building, but it is more complete than relying on incomplete building names from OpenStreetMap (OSM).

This data set is designed for geospatial software users who require basic details (building name and address) on locations of buildings that are primarily used for public education, but also are frequently used for other community needs. It covers most, but not all, active public school program locations (see Completeness section). It does not include charter schools, private schools, or buildings delivering non-K12 educational programs, such as early childhood centers delivering only pre-K programs. (Early childhood centers including at least a KG grade are included.)