VISUALIZED AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS · MI
Michigan Public Schools
The canvas comes first: every public school district in Michigan, drawn from the federal boundary files. The data layers — enrollment change, funding, teachers, achievement — are built on top of this map, Missouri-style, in phases.
THE DISTRICT MAP
School district boundaries
Hover any district for its name. Boundaries are the 2024–25 school-year files from NCES EDGE / U.S. Census TIGER.
MAP IN PREPARATION
The Michigan district boundary file hasn’t been generated yet.
Run scripts/make_boundaries.sh to rebuild boundaries/michigan.geojson, then redeploy.
Source: NCES EDGE Composite School District Boundaries, 2024–25 (via U.S. Census TIGER/Line). Unified and elementary districts shown.
540 districts are drawn on this map — 513 unified and 27 elementary.
A note about charter schools. Charter schools enroll about 10.8% of Michigan’s public-school students, and they are not represented on this map. In Michigan most charters are authorized by public universities rather than by school districts: they operate outside the district system, are usually their own local education agency, and often enroll students across district lines. So this map describes Michigan’s geographic district system — not its whole public-school population. That distinction matters here more than in most states, and it will matter for every data layer built on top of this map.