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One of several datasets produced for Maine Department of Education to display the affiliation of municipalities for educational purposes.
A community school district (CSD) is a combination of two or more municipalities and/or districts formed to build, maintain, and operate a school building or buildings to educate any or all grades. For example, a CSD may be formed to build and operate a grade 7-12 school for all towns in the CSD. These same towns will maintain individual control (or belong to a union) for the education of their K-6 students. A community school district may also include education of all grades K-12. CSD school committees are apportioned according to the one person-one vote principle. The member municipalities share the CSD costs, based on a formula including number of pupils in each town and/or state valuation or any combination of each. Community School District budgets are approved by majority vote of voters present and voting at a district budget meeting followed by approval at referendum.
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Extent
West | -70.789934 | East | -67.360186 |
North | 45.542382 | South | 43.204842 |
Maximum (zoomed in) | 1:5,000 |
Minimum (zoomed out) | 1:50,000 |
Credit should always be given to the data source and/or originator when the data is transferred or printed.
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publication date
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Maine county name
MEGIS
School Administrative Unit Name
MeDOE
School Administrative Unit Type
MeDOE
Municipality or reservation name as listed in "Standard Geographic Code for Maine Minor Civil Divisions"
MEGIS
Feature geometry.
ESRI
The specific attributes for school administrative units were provided by the Maine Department of Education.
The ArcView shapefile and ArcGIS geodatabase formats, commonly used for Maine GIS data, carry default identifiers and attributes that are software generated and/or important for internal recordkeeping. These are listed here to avoid repetition for every layer, and may not be repeated in the attribute descriptions and definitions of each layer. Common software generated identifiers and attributes in Maine GIS data include: FID (feature identifier), Shape (feature geometry), OBJECTID and SHAPE_lengt. In addition, most GIS formats will carry fields for PERIMETER, AREA and/or LENGTH according to feature geometry. These fields are typically available by default, with the units based on coordinate system or projection units of GIS data. Most GIS software packages also provide a means to calculate these values. It is important to test any columns containing PERIMETER, AREA or LENGTH values before using them for analysis purposes. These important values can be carried from format to format and become out-dated. Verify that the values are correct. Also, in your GIS software, please view the properties of data layers for the map units used to calculate these fields, and for the units set for display purposes.