Manitoba School Divisions

This dataset was created to provide a spatial dataset of the school divisions within the province of Manitoba.

This polygon layer depicts official boundaries of the Manitoba School Divisions as per Director of Surveys (DoS) plans. Each DoS number can be found in the field "source". Boundaries are approved by both Manitoba Education and the Director of Surveys of Manitoba. 

Ward boundaries, schools and the following school divisions are not included in this dataset:

  • Funded Independent, 
  • Non-funded Independent, 
  • First Nations, 
  • Institutional schools, and 
  • The Division Scolaire franco-manitobaine.
This  polygon layer is symbolized by the School Division Names in the field SchoolDiv.

The dataset includes the following fields:

Alias (Field Name): Description of field

FID (FID): Identification number OBJECTID (OBJECTID): Object ID
Shape Length (Shape_Leng): Length of polygon Shape Area (Shape_Area): Area of polygon shape School Division Name (School_Div): Division Name.
DoS Source Number (SOURCE): Director of Surveys (DoS) plan number.
Website (WEBSITE): Division website address (if available).

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Last Updated March 25, 2026, 01:47 (UTC)
Created March 25, 2026, 01:47 (UTC)
Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title
Title for the Dataset.
Manitoba School Divisions
Description
A description of the dataset.

This dataset was created to provide a spatial dataset of the school divisions within the province of Manitoba.

This polygon layer depicts official boundaries of the Manitoba School Divisions as per Director of Surveys (DoS) plans. Each DoS number can be found in the field "source". Boundaries are approved by both Manitoba Education and the Director of Surveys of Manitoba. 

Ward boundaries, schools and the following school divisions are not included in this dataset:

  • Funded Independent, 
  • Non-funded Independent, 
  • First Nations, 
  • Institutional schools, and 
  • The Division Scolaire franco-manitobaine.
This  polygon layer is symbolized by the School Division Names in the field SchoolDiv.

The dataset includes the following fields:

Alias (Field Name): Description of field

FID (FID): Identification number OBJECTID (OBJECTID): Object ID
Shape Length (Shape_Leng): Length of polygon Shape Area (Shape_Area): Area of polygon shape School Division Name (School_Div): Division Name.
DoS Source Number (SOURCE): Director of Surveys (DoS) plan number.
Website (WEBSITE): Division website address (if available).
Tags / Keywords
Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
6408.0
Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
F2428D99-4FEB-4163-A08A-A2FE66BE8481
Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
2018-11-08
Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
Field Value
Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
public
License
License used to access the dataset.
Manitoba Open Data Licence
Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
Location
Location of the dataset.
https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/datasets/manitoba::manitoba-school-divisions
Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner
Owner of the dataset.
Manitoba_Government
Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
Manitoba Maps
Contact Point Email
The email to contact regarding access?
[email protected]
Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
Manitoba Maps
Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
Author
Author of the dataset.
Manitoba_Government
Author Email
Email of the author.
Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
2022-10-26
Field Value
Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
d7d20b4a0d5b46839ee16050c24de8a4
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
English
Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/datasets/manitoba::manitoba-school-divisions
Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type
Platform type of the source portal.
Field Value
Version
Version of the datatset
None
Source
Source of the dataset.
None
Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions
Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
GeoManitoba, Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship
Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
Field Value
Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
Field Value
Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
36
Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
13
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
468
Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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