Pakistan government schools with positions and provenance

Name: Pakistan government schools with positions and provenance
Creator: Hiba Sameen
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Government schools of Pakistan with positions and provenance, one row per listed school (release 2026-09).

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Source: Provincial school registers: SED Balochistan open-data portal; Sindh SELD Institution Checker and Distance Checker with RSU district GIS pins; KP Education Monitoring Authority school locator and the JSiMS mirror of KP EMIS; Punjab School Information System; GB EMIS; Mirpur and Kotli exam boards; OpenStreetMap for Islamabad. Compiled for Adaad, September 2026.
Rows in this release: 125,317
Units: Vary by field or series; see definitions below.
Catalogue generated: 2026-09-13

Definitions and limitations

READ coord_method AND coord_precision BEFORE USING lat/lng. Only 82,000 of the 121,000 positioned rows are school-level fixes (GPS at source in Balochistan and KP, RSU pins or positions multilaterated from SELD checker distances in Sindh); 20,000 Punjab, GB and AJK rows sit at the named SETTLEMENT, 8,000 Punjab rows at the MARKAZ (school-cluster) centroid and 9,800 Punjab rows at the TEHSIL centroid — those last two are useless for anything finer than a district. coord_tier is the region's overall grade from the coverage ledger (A to C). in_analysis marks the 118,673 rows that entered Adaad's distance analysis; analysis_note says why the rest did not (no position, closed, sex not stated, not government). gender is the school's name DESIGNATION (GG/GB, Boys/Girls); in Sindh most designated boys' schools are officially Mixed and enrol girls — gender_official carries SEMIS's Boys/Girls/Mixed field and boys_/girls_enrolled the roster's enrolment, so the girls' network can be redefined by attendance. level is the source's own label and level_std collapses it to primary/middle/high; middle_plus and high_plus are the analysis's classes. Coverage: settled KP only (the seven ex-FATA merged districts have no public locations), two of AJK's ten districts, 78 federal schools in Islamabad; see school_layer_coverage. district_key is the source's district mapped to Data Darbar's 147-district frame (successor districts folded into their parent); district_key_boundary is the polygon the point falls in, which is what per-district counts in the piece use — they differ for 3,500 rows. Every position in this table is either published by a provincial education department (Balochistan, KP, and Sindh's pins), solved from distances the Sindh department's own public distance checker returns, or geocoded from a settlement name in a public roster. The table adds nothing a department has not put online: no staff names, no contact details. Released under CC BY 4.0 as a compilation; the underlying records remain the departments'.

Pakistan government schools with positions and provenance — data dictionary
Field	Type	Definition
row_id	INTEGER	row number in this release (stable within a release only)
school_id	VARCHAR	the source's own code: EMIS (Balochistan, KP, Punjab), SEMIS (Sindh), GB EMIS school code; blank for AJK and Islamabad
province	VARCHAR	province or territory
region	VARCHAR	analysis region as the piece labels it (KP (settled), AJK (Mirpur+Kotli), Islamabad (ICT))
district	VARCHAR	district as the source writes it
district_key	VARCHAR	Data Darbar district key of the source district (successors folded into parents) — joins district_indicators, mpi_districts, school_access_district
district_key_boundary	VARCHAR	Data Darbar district whose polygon contains the point; NULL when no position or outside every polygon (coast, border)
tehsil	VARCHAR	tehsil or taluka as the source writes it; blank for KP, AJK, Islamabad
name	VARCHAR	school name as listed
level	VARCHAR	level as the source labels it
level_std	VARCHAR	primary \| middle \| high \| other (Elementary → middle; Secondary, Higher Secondary, H.Sec. → high; Mosque → primary)
primary_plus	BOOLEAN	true for every school (any level serves the primary class)
middle_plus	BOOLEAN	middle level or above
high_plus	BOOLEAN	high or higher-secondary level
gender	VARCHAR	name designation: Boys \| Girls \| Unknown
gender_official	VARCHAR	Sindh only: SEMIS gender field Boys \| Girls \| Mixed
boys_enrolled	INTEGER	Sindh only: boys enrolled per the SELD roster
girls_enrolled	INTEGER	Sindh only: girls enrolled per the SELD roster
enrolment_total	INTEGER	total enrolment where the source gives it (Balochistan, Sindh)
status	VARCHAR	source status: Functional \| Viable Closed \| Closed \| Non-Viable (Sindh); Open \| Closed \| Inaccessible (KP, non-primary only)
functional	BOOLEAN	false where the source marks the school closed or inaccessible; NULL where the source carries no status
lat	DOUBLE	latitude, WGS84, 6 dp
lng	DOUBLE	longitude, WGS84, 6 dp
has_coords	BOOLEAN	lat and lng present
coord_method	VARCHAR	gps_at_source \| kpema_detail \| jsims_mirror \| rsu_pin_confirmed \| multilaterated \| geocoded_school_point \| geocoded_settlement \| geocoded_cluster \| geocoded_markaz \| geocoded_tehsil \| osm_feature \| NULL
coord_precision	VARCHAR	what the position identifies: school \| settlement \| cluster \| markaz \| tehsil \| none
coord_tier	VARCHAR	region grade from the coverage ledger: A, A-, B, B-, C
coord_resid_m	DOUBLE	Sindh only: RMS residual, metres, of the multilateration solve
pin_vs_solved_m	DOUBLE	Sindh only: distance, metres, between the RSU pin and the solved position (NULL when no pin)
geocode_match	VARCHAR	the geocoder's or checker's own match class, kept verbatim
source	VARCHAR	register the row comes from
source_url	VARCHAR	portal
source_vintage	VARCHAR	when the register was read
in_analysis	BOOLEAN	entered Adaad's distance analysis (functional, positioned, sex designated, government)
analysis_sex	VARCHAR	network the school belongs to in the analysis: G \| B
analysis_note	VARCHAR	why in_analysis is false
release	VARCHAR	release tag of this table

Reuse and citation

Hiba Sameen / Data Darbar. Pakistan government schools with positions and provenance. https://darbar.adaad.org/datasets/schools-pk/. Cite the original source listed above and the catalogue release when reusing this table.

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