The purpose of this Internet site is to provide a location for interested state and local school officials to review and download 2007-2008 School District Review Program (SDRP) information and materials. Detailed program instructions and other materials in Portable Document Format (PDF) are available for viewing or dowload.
Program materials for the annotation phase, including school district PDF maps and files that contain school district information, are being made available on a flow basis by state. Note: If the link to your state is not "live", this indicates that the materials for your state are not yet available.
PLEASE NOTE: As you know, the technical and software challenges which the Census Bureau experienced earlier this year resulted in the delayed delivery of materials for the Annotation Phase of the SDRP. Due to this delay and being required to meet the release deadline for the preliminary school district estimates in November 2008, a Verification Phase will not be possible for this update cycle. The Census Bureau will release updated school district boundaries submitted during the 2007-2008 SDRP in our 2008TIGER/Line shapefile product, which is scheduled for release in late 2008. In addition, our non-digital participants can view their updated school districts boundaries in the American Fact Finder in late 2008.
The U.S. Census Bureau creates special tabulations of decennial census data by school district geography. These tabulations provide detailed demographic characteristics of the nation's public school systems and offer one of the largest single sources of children's demographic characteristics currently available. Information is distributed through the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
The SDRP, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau every two years, is of vital importance for each state's allocation under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Public Law (P.L.) 107-110. The school district information obtained through this program, along with the Census 2000 population and income data, current population estimates, and tabulations of administrative records data, are used in forming the Census Bureau's estimates of the number of children aged 5 through 17 in low-income families for each school district. These estimates of the number of children in low-income families residing within each school district are the basis of the Title 1 allocation for each school district.
The scope of the 2007-2008 SDRP is for state officials to review the Census Bureau's 2005-2006 school district information and to provide the Census Bureau with updates and corrections to the school district names and Federal Local Education Agency (LEA) identification numbers, school district boundaries, and the grade ranges for which a school district is financially responsible.
You may review your 2005-2006 School Districts (Verification Products).These products reflect the Census Bureau's current school district information.
The 2007-2008 SDRP encompasses only Type 1 and Type 2 school districts as defined by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Type 1 is a local school district that is not a component of a supervisory union, and Type 2 is a local school district component of a supervisory union sharing a superintendent and administrative services with other local school districts.
The Census Bureau requests that state school district officials submit school district boundary information that reflects the 2007-2008 school districts as they will exist on January 1, 2008.
Procedures for the submission of digital school district boundaries from state Geographic Information System (GIS) files have changed. Annotation materials will still include digital extracts from our spatial database called MAF/TIGER database - MAF/TIGER stands for Master Address File (MAF)/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) Data Base (MTDB). Additionally, SDRP digital participants will have the option to use the MAF/TIGER Partnership Software (MTPS), a customized PC-based software application offered by the Census Bureau to support this program. The MTPS allows participants to review, update and submit all requested school district changes or corrections. The SDRP participants will be provided with spatial and tabular data along with the MTPS.
Please contact us if your state is interested in learning more about or is planning to use MTPS. If your state is planning to submit your boundaries digitally with your own software program, please contact us as soon as possible so we can begin discussing the technical issues surrounding the accurate integration of your school district boundary data into the MTDB.
New!
Computer-Based Training
Included in the MTPS application is a “Computer Based Training (CBT)” module. It is now included on this WEB site so that you can experience the tool's functionality. Click on the following link to review the CBT.
2007-2008 Mapping Coordinators [MS Word] [Text]
Mr. Ryan Short (301) 763-1099
Mr. Ian Millett (301) 763-1099
Ms. Pat Ream (301) 763-1099
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