Identification info

Metadata Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Dataset Reference Date (Revision)

2024-04-02

Identifier

www.gov.scot / SG_SchoolRoll

Presentation form

Digital map

Maintenance and update frequency

Annually

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Utility and governmental services

IPSV Subjects List

• Schools

Limitations on Public Access

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations to public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

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.

Other constraints

In some instances the contact information provided for the school is a decant location (e.g. while a new school is being built on the old site). In most of these cases, the geocoded location for the school has been left where the school is actually located rather than the decant location.

Other constraints

The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year), and data created and maintained by Scottish Local Government © Local Government Information House Limited copyright and database rights (insert year).

Other constraints

Open Government Licence

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

10000

Topic category

• Location

Code

S92000003

Additional information

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

 

Code

EPSG:4258

Code

EPSG:27700

Distribution Information

 

Data quality info

Quality Scope

Dataset

Statement

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.

 

Metadata

File identifier

5fa510db-88c8-40ef-bbf2-2989210b7167 XML

Metadata Language

English

Resource type

Dataset

Metadata Date

2024-04-03T12:12:15

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3