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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Mapping School Districts - an interactive map portal

Continuing my expose into public sites powered by ArcGIS for Server, I came upon one that is "near & dear" to the wife's heart as we contemplate relocating to a new school district in the Washington DC / Northern Virginia area. 

This site provides access to demographics, social characteristics, and economics of children and school districts from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education. 



 Upon entering, it auto-queries you location to show that state of interest and provides a thematic map - customizable to the variable of interest.



The pop-up tool bars allow for changes in layer display, transparency and export/query options.




In this case, my goal was to understand the overlapping elementary, middle school and high school boundaries in northern Virginia's Fairfax Count school district to assist in our home search.

 Below is the resulting interactive map:


Full credits to ESRI and the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education.

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