Source
NCES + state district boundary GIS · vintage 2026 · refresh cadence: annual
TIGER EDGE shapefile GEOID for spatial joins
Direction of better
No universal direction; user preference determines what is "better".
Unit
Values are reported in text.
Where the data lives
Tables: national_schools
Columns: boundary_geoid
Input field: boundary_geoid
JSON-LD example
Every value emitted by ValiFit (in /api/v1, MCP responses, on-page JSON-LD) carries a propertyID set to this metric_id, so AI clients can resolve it back here in one round-trip.
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"propertyID": "school.boundary_geoid",
"name": "School District Boundary GEOID",
"value": "example",
"unitText": "text",
"additionalProperty": [
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "composite",
"value": "Education"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "level",
"value": "address"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "direction",
"value": "optimize"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "source_year",
"value": "2026"
},
{
"@type": "PropertyValue",
"name": "fha_safe",
"value": true
}
],
"valueReference": {
"@type": "QuantitativeValue",
"additionalType": "https://valifit.com/catalog/metric",
"identifier": "school.boundary_geoid",
"sameAs": "NCES + state district boundary GIS"
},
"mentions": [
{
"@type": "Dataset",
"@id": "https://valifit.com/sources/nces-f33-school-district-finance",
"identifier": "NCES_F33",
"name": "NCES Local Education Agency Finance Survey",
"url": "https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/f33agency.asp",
"sameAs": "https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/f33agency.asp",
"creator": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "National Center for Education Statistics"
},
"temporalCoverage": "annual",
"dateModified": "2026-07-21"
},
{
"@type": "Dataset",
"@id": "https://valifit.com/sources/tiger-school-districts",
"identifier": "TIGER_DISTRICTS",
"name": "TIGER School District Boundaries",
"url": "https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html",
"sameAs": "https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html",
"creator": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "U.S. Census Bureau + NCES"
},
"temporalCoverage": "annual",
"dateModified": "2026-05-07"
}
]
}For programmatic access
GET /api/v1/catalog/metrics?id=school.boundary_geoid
MCP tool: get_catalog with id="school.boundary_geoid"