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Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESA), Wisconsin 2020

Identification Information

Citation
Title
Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESA), Wisconsin 2020
Originator
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Publication Date
2020-09-03
Edition
3.0
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
mapDigital
Collection Title
Statewide, Wisconsin State Agencies
Abstract
Cooperative Educational Service Agencies are intermediate service agencies that provide programs, services, and resources to a region of school districts in the state of Wisconsin. This dataset was assembled using county-derived school district boundary data and school district information from the Department of Public Instruction website. Each year, there is a chance for reorganizations to take place that either transfer territory between school districts or consolidate/dissolve/create districts. These reorganizations go into effect on July 1st of each year. Sometimes reorganizations involve CESA boundaries as territory transfers between school districts located in two different CESAs. In 2020, there were no reorganizations that caused changes to CESA boundaries, however, the boundaries were updated to better reflect the boundaries of the unified and secondary school district boundary layers from which this layer is derived. See lineage section for more information on this update.
Purpose
Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESAs) for the State of Wisconsin - valid for the 2020-21 school year.
Supplemental Information
In 2019 there were eleven (11) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Calumet, Dane, Eau Claire, Iowa, La, Crosse, St. Croix, and Winnebago counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: In 2018, there were twelve (12) reorganizations that involved unified school districts. The reorganizations took place in Dane, Fond du Lac, Iron, Iowa, La, Crosse, Polk, St. Croix, and Washington counties. Transfers of territory took place between the following pairs of districts: Turtle Lake and Amery; Hurley (unified) and Lakeland UHS (secondary) / North Lakeland (elementary); West Salem and La Crosse; Waupun and Rosendale-Brandon; Middleton Cross-Plains and Madison Metropolitan; Osceola and Somerset; Mineral Point and Pecatonica. Archived dataset at UW-Madison. For more information and most current data please visit: https://data-wi-dpi.opendata.arcgis.com/
Temporal Extent
Time Instant
2020-09-03T00:00:00
Bounding Box
West
-92.964215
East
-86.709179
North
47.083097
South
42.457991
ISO Topic Category
location
society
boundaries
Place Keyword
Wisconsin
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Theme Keyword
Boundaries
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
Theme Keyword
School districts
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
Resource Constraints
Use Limitation
The layer is intended for your reference use only. It contains the best information the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has to date, but no guarantee of accuracy is made. It should not be used for any land transactions, financial decisions, taxation, surveying, or other similar uses. See summary information about boundary changes in the DPI property transfer log. The DPI is not responsible for data that is misinterpreted or altered in any way. Derived conclusions and analyses generated from this data are not to be considered attributable to the DPI.
Status
completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
annually
Language
eng
Credit
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Point of Contact
Contact
Shelley Witte
Position Name
GIS Technician
Delivery Point
125 S. Webster Street
City
Madison
Administrative Area
WI
Postal Code
53701
Country
US
Email
shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
Phone
608-266-3939
Point of Contact
Contact
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Delivery Point
125 S. Webster St.
City
Madison
Administrative Area
WI
Postal Code
53703
Country
US
Phone
608-266-3390

Spatial Reference Information

Reference System Identifier
Code
3071
Code Space
EPSG
Version
6.13(9.2.0)

Data Quality Information

Lineage
Statement
This layer is the result of aggregation procedures implemented over school district boundary data provided by Wisconsin's 72 counties. Each public school district in Wisconsin is located in one of twelve Cooperative Educational Service Agencies. CESA attribute information was first included in the Unified School Districts, Wisconsin 2018 and Secondary School District, Wisconsin 2018 layers. The two layers were merged into a single layer and then dissolved based on CESA number resulting in this final layer. Official school district boundary changes that occur across CESA boundaries are updated annually around July 1. The two school district boundary layers that are the basis for this layer are the result of aggregation procedures implemented over school district boundary data provided by Wisconsin's 72 counties. The original statewide layers for unified and secondary school districts were developed using county school district boundary data submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) in 2017. In some places, these boundaries reflected school district information from tax parcels, in other places they did not. In 2020, the entire statewide layer was modified to wholly reflect the most recently released tax parcel data which is maintained at the county level. Note: Version 2.0 and all versions from 2017 contain an error where the Mount Horeb Area School District was attributed to CESA 3 instead of 2. This error was corrected in version 2.1 and is correct in all layers since.

Distribution Information

Format Name
Shapefile
Format Version
1.0
Distributor
Distributor
UW-Madison
Online Access
https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/WI_CESAs_2020.zip
Protocol
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
Name
GeoData@Wisconsin
Function
download

Spatial Representation Information

Vector
Topology Level
geometryOnly
Vector Object Type
composite
Vector Object Count
12

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
2CB0A333-5924-4BE4-B910-68364A87CCEA
Metadata Date Stamp
2020-09-03
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf8
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