What is This

A geojson file containing data about Irish secondary schools.

FAQ

How many schools are in this list?

728

Where did you get the data

https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/post-primary-schools/

Specifically:

The source for this data is the National School Annual Census for 2021/2022, which is returned via the Primary Online Database (POD). This includes both the Mainstream Census and the Special School Annual Census. Data is anchored on the census date of 30th September 2021. Note that only schools aided by the Department of Education are included in this list. This data is provisional and was published in December 2021. Final data will be published in June 2022. The final data will replace the provisional data.

No, I meant the spatial data

I collated data from a variety of sources. I won't be elaborating on this.

Is there a license for this data?

The school data is published as open data by the Irish government. I'm licensing my contributions as CC0. See the license file for more detail.

Are you accepting responsibility for any errors?

I am not. The spatial data in this dataset should not be considered canonical.

I found an error in the dataset

Please open an issue and I'll fix it.

A school is missing

Please open an issue and I'll fix it.

Why are you doing this?

I needed the locations of all Irish secondary schools 'aided by the Department of Education'

I want to contribute some data

Wonderful. Please open a Pull Request.

Is there a canonical unique ID per school?

Yes: Roll Number. This will be available for any school dataset published by the Department of Education.

Headers

Header
Roll Number
Official School Name
Principal Name
Address 1
Address 2
Address 3
Address 4
Eircode
Email
Phone
Fee-Charging School (Y/N)
Post Primary School Type
Irish Classification - Post Primary
Ethos/Religion
Count Unique Enrolments - <=30th Sept
total
latitude
longitude