Dataset
Public Schools
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Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 15
- Keywords
- boston, bostonmaps, bps, ckan, public, schools
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/public-schools
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 32144 | 016149c0169e84f026f5b8a7b4383e4e93b6d2341b9ea63f2929f1807ede7edf | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 67691 | 6836644df3197596242283ff9d4e18ec822a10dc0f5c94f2be319d711fccca92 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 17893 | d04754564b9ab3f90cf62562613c0a8dd02c5e62481cad8c9e3e20f1b7e76c78 | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
BLDG_ID | text | |
BLDG_NAME | text | |
ADDRESS | text | |
CITY | text | |
ZIPCODE | text | |
CSP_SCH_ID | text | |
SCH_ID | text | |
SCH_NAME | text | |
SCH_LABEL | text | |
SCH_TYPE | text | |
SHARED | text | |
COMPLEX | text | |
shape_wkt | text | |
POINT_X | text | |
POINT_Y | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:public-schools
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/public-schools
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/public-schools.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- public-schools
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |