Schools
API Information
Version:v1.1.0
Region:US
Used for:Supporting real estate, education, and public policy use cases by enabling school-aware location analysis, school boundary visualization, and integration of educational context into mapping and property workflows.
Overview
The LightBox Schools API delivers detailed information about public and private schools nationwide, including physical school locations, district boundaries, and attendance zones. This data supports a wide range of workflows—from real estate site selection and family relocation tools to education equity analysis and public planning. The API enables spatial queries and attribute lookups to retrieve key educational boundary data for any given location or geometry.
Key Capabilities
- ✓Retrieve school information and boundary data based on LightBox Parcel ID, Address ID, or Assessment ID
- ✓Query all schools and attendance areas intersecting a WKT geometry or bounding box
- ✓Access school district boundaries for zoning analysis, enrollment planning, or relocation intelligence
- ✓Visualize school and district boundaries using tile-based endpoints with support for common map controls
- ✓Identify nearby public and private schools by location or spatial proximity
Scope
Data Points
- School Locations
- School District Boundaries
- School Attendance Areas
Coverage
- Nationwide Public School System
- Select Private School Coverage