Percentages of 3rd Grade Students testing at ELA Proficiency, broken down by Census tract, as well as if the family is reported to be living in poverty or not.
<div>The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB).&nbsp; The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity, and were defined by local participants as part of the 2020 Census Participant Statistical Areas Program.&nbsp; The Census Bureau delineated the census tracts in situations where no local participant existed or where all the potential participants declined to participate.&nbsp; The primary purpose of census tracts is to provide a stable set of geographic units for the presentation of census data and comparison back to previous decennial censuses.&nbsp; Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people.&nbsp; When first delineated, census tracts were designed to be homogeneous with respect to population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions.&nbsp; The spatial size of census tracts varies widely depending on the density of settlement.&nbsp; Physical changes in street patterns caused by highway construction, new development, and so forth, may require boundary revisions.&nbsp; In addition, census tracts occasionally are split due to population growth, or combined as a result of substantial population decline.&nbsp; Census tract boundaries generally follow visible and identifiable features.&nbsp; They may follow legal boundaries such as minor civil division (MCD) or incorporated place boundaries in some States and situations to allow for census tract-to-governmental unit relationships where the governmental boundaries tend to remain unchanged between censuses.&nbsp; State and county boundaries always are census tract boundaries in the standard census geographic hierarchy.&nbsp; In a few rare instances, a census tract may consist of noncontiguous areas.&nbsp; These noncontiguous areas may occur where the census tracts are coextensive with all or parts of legal entities that are themselves noncontiguous.&nbsp; For the 2020 Census, the census tract code range of 9400 through 9499 was enforced for census tracts that include a majority American Indian population according to Census 2010 data and/or their area was primarily covered by federally recognized American Indian reservations and/or off-reservation trust lands; the code range 9800 through 9899 was enforced for those census tracts that contained little or no population and represented a relatively large special land use area such as a National Park, military installation, or a business/industrial park; and the code range 9900 through 9998 was enforced for those census tracts that contained only water area.<br /><br /><b>Metadata/ Data Dictionary</b> <br /><br />Available at:&nbsp;<a href='https://github.com/CityofSyracuse/OpenDataDictionaries/blob/80afb608e015bceedd31c09b3dceb98c7ac26bcc/CensusTractsInSyracuseNY-2020.xml' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>CensusTractsInSyracuseNY-2020.xml</a><br /></div>
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