California Public Schools 2025-26

This layer excludes nonpublic schools and district office schools, so the total public school enrollment in this file will differ from the CDE's official statewide Fall 1 Census Day total enrollment. CDE's official Fall 1 2025-26 public school enrollment (5,731,260) - nonpublic school enrollment (8,645) - district office school enrollment ( 5,917) = 5,716,698. The CDE's California School Director y provides school location other basic school characteristics found in the layer's attribute table.

The school enrollment, demographic and program data are collected by the CDE through the California Longitudinal Achievement System (CALPADS) and can be accessed as publicly downloadable files from the Data & Statistics web page on the CDE website. Schools are assigned X, Y coordinates using a quality controlled geocoding and validation process to optimize positional accuracy. Most schools are mapped to the school structure or centroid of the school property parcel and are individually verified using aerial imagery or assessor's parcels databases.

Schools are assigned various geographic area values based on their mapped locations including California County Superintendents Educational Services (CCSESA) district numbers, state and federal legislative district identifiers and National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) locale codes.