Identification

Title

Scottish School Roll and Locations

Abstract

Information about Scottish schools are updated by the Scottish Government annually for the purposes of monitoring overall performance, equality and individual policies. This dataset provides the current geocoded location, contact address, roll numbers, teacher numbers, denomination, and proportion of pupils from minority and ethnic groups for each primary, secondary and special school in Scotland. Until 2019, these updates were reflective of the previous September. The SG School Roll 2021 is reflective of the July 2021 schools locations data (originally published 1st September and updated 13th September) and July 2020 school roll, FTE teachers, proportion minority background, and proportion 20% most deprived data. July 2021 data on pupil roll, etc., will be available in spring 2022 and the the SG School Roll 2021 will be updated shortly thereafter to reflect complete July 2021 data.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/UtilityGovernmental/MapServer/WMSServer?

protocol: OGC:WMS

name: ScottishSchoolRoll

description: ScottishSchoolRoll

function: information

https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/UtilityGovernmental/MapServer/WFSServer?

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: UG:ScottishSchoolRoll

description: ScottishSchoolRoll

function: download

https://maps.gov.scot/server/rest/services/ScotGov/UtilityGovernmental/MapServer/0

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Scottish School Roll and Locations

description: ESRI REST Service

function: download

https://maps.gov.scot/ATOM/shapefiles/SG_SchoolRoll_2021.zip

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name: Scottish School Roll and Locations

description: ESRI Shapefile Download

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

SG_SchoolRoll

codeSpace

www.gov.scot

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/Datasets

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

location

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Utility and governmental services

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Schools

originating controlled vocabulary

title

IPSV Subjects List

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-11-18

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.80

East bounding longitude

-0.71

North bounding latitude

60.87

South bounding latitude

54.63

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-10-11

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

This dataset represents the geo-locations for Scottish schools recorded in the following publication: https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-contact-details/. The dataset has been improved by including additional information (e.g. pupil roll, FTE teachers, proportion of pupils from an minority ethnic background, proportion of pupils from the 20% most deprived datazones) from this publication: https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-level-summary-statistics/. The school UPRN (Unique Property Reference Number) is used to source grid reference information for each school. The source for the majority of these grid references is the National Records of Scotland Scottish Address Directory (NRS SAD). In a small number of cases, the UPRNs in the SG School Roll & Locations dataset and the School Contact Details dataset will differ. The reasons for the difference, and the source of the replacement UPRN, will be described in the ‘Notes’ column of the SG School Roll & Locations attribute table. The dataset includes the SEED code for each school, which is a 7-digit number assigned by the Scottish Government for each school. A field called SchUID has also been added which adds a ‘P’, ‘S’ or ‘SP’ suffix to each SEED code to indicate primary, secondary or special schools respectively. This is because a primary and secondary school that operate at the same campus will both be assigned the same SEED code. The SchUID code should be used as the unique field for the dataset. Note that a point has been created for each SchUID, so a single SEED code or 'campus' may have multiple points. As a result this dataset has more instances than the school contact details spreadsheet. Schools have also been assigned a deprivation ranking based on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020. The rank number indicates the rank of the data zone which the school is located in. The vigintile of the data zone is provided as well as whether it falls within the 15 percent most deprived data zones or the 16 to 25 percent most deprived (indicated by ‘Y’ or ‘N’). The 15 percent most deprived data zones equate to vigintiles 1, 2 and 3, whereas the 16 to 25 percent most deprived equate to vigintiles 4 and 5. Schools have also been assigned an urban rural code based on the 6 and 8 fold version of the Scottish Government's Urban Rural Classification. Note that the urban rural assignments are given for the geocoded location and also for the data zone in which the school falls. Assignments may be different for the address/data zone in about 2.5% of cases. Discretion is required when considering which assignment should be used for a given project.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Assignments to the Urban Rural Classification differ between the geocoded address and data zone in about 2.5% of cases. Discretion is required when considering which assignment should be used for a given project.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

email address

GI-SAT@gov.scot

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

email address

GI-SAT@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-10-13T13:13:35

Metadata language

eng