/school-eng-data

School register data

Primary LanguageMakefileMIT LicenseMIT

School register data

Data for the prototype school register, a list of educational establishments in England and Wales taken from the Department for Education's EduBase public portal.

Data

http://school-phase.discovery.openregister.org

http://school-gender.discovery.openregister.org

http://school-type.discovery.openregister.org

http://school-admissions-policy.discovery.openregister.org

http://school-federation.discovery.openregister.org

http://diocese.discovery.openregister.org

http://denomination.discovery.openregister.org

http://school-authority.discovery.openregister.org

Addresses

This repository also contains discovery data for the address and street registers, only for those addresses linked to by the school register.

  • address — The UPRN encoded as three sets of three alphanumeric characters separated by hyphens using Douglas Crockford's base32 encoding scheme.
  • parent-address — a reference to an address which contains this address
  • primary-address — a reference to the BS7666 primary addressable object
  • name — the BS7666 secondary addressable object name as a single field in English
  • name-cy — the BS7666 secondary addressable object name as a single field in Welsh
  • street — a reference to the street register
  • point — the geographical location of the addressable object
  • start-date
  • end-date
  • street — the Unique Street Reference Number (USRN)
  • name — the street name in English
  • name-cy — the street name in Welsh
  • place — a reference to the place register
  • local-authority — a reference to the local-authority register for the address custodian
  • line — an polyline describing the geography for the street
  • start-date
  • end-date

http://street.discovery.openregister.org

Building

Use make to build register shaped data — we recommend using a Python virtual environment:

$ mkvirtualenv -p python3 school-data
$ workon school-data
$ make init

$ make

Address matching

Matching a text address found in edubase to the register entry requires a local copy of address-data.

Licence

The software in this project is covered by LICENSE file.

The data is © Crown copyright and available under the terms of the Open Government 3.0 licence.