This dataset is designed to represent and identify the boundaries of public school facilities and certified private schools within Lexington-Fayette County. The dataset is created by leveraging the appropriate boundaries in the GIS parcel dataset. The location of the public school facilities is updated through public record and coordination with the Fayette County Public School. The location for the certified private schools is updated through public record for certified private schools from the Kentucky Department of Education. The public school facilities are continously updated, while the certified private schools are updated on an anual basis as part of the registered sex offender mapping process. This dataset participates in a topology with the parcel dataset to assure coincident geometry during parcel editing.

As part of the basemap data layers, the school boundary map layer is an integral part of the Lexington Fayette-Urban County Government Geographic Information System. Basemap data layers are accessed by personnel in most LFUCG divisions for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production. More advanced user applications may focus on thematic mapping, summarization of data by geography, or planning purposes (including defining boundaries, managing assets and facilities, integrating attribute databases with geographic features, spatial analysis, and presentation output).