Introduction to School Locator

School Locator can be used to inventory educational facilities and relevant districts, communicate neighborhood schools, and promote educational resources available in a community.

When people search for a home, one important factor is always the school district. Even if the buyer doesn't have children, school districts have an impact on home value and living area. When other factors are constant, a good school district tends to equal a good neighborhood, or location. And a good location can mean safer neighborhoods and amenities like public parks and services. Increasing access to school attendance zones and other educational resources makes it easier for home buyers to invest in your community.School Locator is typically implemented by local governments, or school districts, that want to promote high-quality educational resources available in a community.

The School Locator solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you inventory educational facilities and relevant districts, communicate neighborhood schools, and promote educational resources available in a community.

Deploy the solution

This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

School Locator requires the following:

  • ArcGIS Online
  • ArcGIS Pro 2.8 or later (Basic, Standard, or Advanced)

Information products

School Locator includes the following information products:

ItemDescriptionMinimum user type

School Locator

A Nearby app used by the general public to locate and explore all elementary and secondary schools within a district

Not required

My Neighborhood School

A Nearby app used by the general public to find schools within an attendance zone boundary

Not required

School Data Management

An ArcGIS Pro project used to maintain attendance zone boundaries, schools, and bus stop locations

GIS Professional Basic

Find Your School

An ArcGIS Hub site used by the general public to locate your neighborhood school and explore all schools in our district

Not required

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

VersionDescription
2.0 (Nov 2021)
  • A new ArcGIS Hub site used by the general public to locate your neighborhood school and explore all schools in our district.
  • A new Nearby app used by the general public to locate and explore all elementary and secondary schools within a district.
  • A new Nearby app used by the general public to find schools within an attendance zone boundary.
  • A new ArcGIS Pro project used to maintain attendance zone boundaries, schools, and bus stop locations.
1.0 (Nov 2020)
  • First release of School Locator