Opening data for over 22,000 Indian CBSE and CISCE schools.
Follow @debarghya_dasThe Github repository with the data for CBSE is available at deedy/cbse_schools_data
and the CISCE at deedy/cisce_schools_data
India has two national boards of education - Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE). As of 2018, the CBSE has 20,367 schools and the CISCE 2,341 schools affiliated with them. Every year, over 1.1 million students in India take either the CBSE Class CII or the ISC examinaiton to graduate from high school. In this post, I write about parsing, scraping, cleaning and opening more than 3 million data points for the 22,000+ schools affiliated with these boards.
CBSE
The CBSE is a government run national board of education in India, and is far larger than the CISCE. For each of the 20,367 schools affiliated with the CBSE, there exists 144 data points.
Regions
There are 10 CBSE regions and their region code. The region code is a 1 or 2 digit number that will be the first numbers of the roll numbers of students from these schools in the CBSE Class XII examination:
- Ajmer, Rajasthan (1) Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Dadar & Nagar Haveli.
- Panchkula, Haryana (2) Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Chandigarh.
- Guwahati, Assam (3) Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura.
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu (46) Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andaman & Nicobar, Daman & Diu, Puducherry
- Trivandrum, Kerala (48) Kerala, Lakshadweep.
- Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh (56) Uttar Pradesh (western districts).
- Dehradun, Uttarakhand (58) Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh (eastern districts).
- Bhubaneswar, Odisha (6) Chattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal.
- Patna, Bihar (7) Bihar, Jharkhand.
- Delhi, NCT (9) Delhi and foreign schools.
Documentation
The detailed documentation and the data can be found in the Github repository.
required string name
School name in upper caserequired int32 aff_no
Affiliation number, uniquerequired State state
Indian State/Union Territory or “Foreign Schools”optional District district
Indian District (or Country if state == FOREIGN SCHOOlS)required CbseRegion region
One of the 10 CBSE regions this school is in the jurisdiction of.required string address
Postal Addressoptional int32 pincode
Indian pincodeoptional string ph_no
Phone number (with STD Code). ‘;’ Separated phone-numbers.optional string off_ph_no
Office phone number. ‘;’ Separated phone-numbers.optional string res_ph_no
Residential phone number. ‘;’ Separated phone-numbers.optional string fax_no
Fax number. ‘;’ Separated numbers.optional string email
Email addressoptional string website
Websiteoptional int32 year_found
Year that the school was founded (between 1800 and 2018)optional Date date_opened
Date that the school was opened (in form “Sep 9, 2010”)optional string princi_name
Name of the principal, upper caseoptional Sex sex
Gender/sex of the school/principal (unclear?).optional int32 princi_qual
Qualifications of the principaloptional int32 princi_exp_adm
Number of years of administrative experience of the principaloptional int32 princi_exp_teach
Number of years of teaching experience of the principalrequired Status status
Status of the school - e.g. Middle Class, Secondary or Senior Secondaryoptional AffiliationType aff_type
Affiliation Type e.g. Provisional, Permanentoptional Date aff_start
Affiliation start date (in form “Sep 9, 2010”)optional Date aff_end
Affiliation end date (in form “Sep 19, 2011”)optional string soc_name
Name of Trust, Society or Managing Committee, upper case- School Location Details (6 fields)
optional string l_nearest_railway
Name of nearest railway stationoptional float l_nearest_railway_dist
Distance (in km) to nearest railway stationoptional string l_nearest_police
Name of nearest polic stationoptional float l_nearest_police_dist
Distance (in km) to nearest police stationoptional string l_nearest_bank
Name of nearest nationalized bankoptional float l_nearest_bank_dist
Distance (in km) to nearest nationalized bank
- School Nature Details (3 fields)
optional Category n_category
The gender category of the school (e.g. Co-educational, Boys, Girls)optional Medium n_medium
The medium of instruction (e.g. English, Hindi)optional Type n_school_type
The type of the school (e.g. Independent, Govt, KVS, JNV, Govt Aided, etc)
- School Enrollment Details (34 fields)
- -
sections
and -students
of each the different classes: e_nursery_
- (Nursery/KG/LKG),e_i_v_
- (Class I-V Elementary),e_vi_viii_
- (Class VI-VIII Middle),e_ix_x_
- (Class IX-X Secondary),e_xi_xii_
- (Class XI-XII Senior Secondary) ande_i_
-,e_ii_
-,e_iii_
-,e_iv_
-,e_v_
-,e_vi_
-,e_vii_
-,e_viii_
-,e_ix_
-,e_x_
-,e_xi_
-,e_xii_
- (Class I through XII)
- -
- School Infrastructure Details (33 fields)
- Each of -
_no
(number),_length
(length in m),_breadth
(breadth in m) of i_classrooms
-,i_composite_lab
-,i_phy_lab
-,i_chem_lab
-,i_bio_lab
-,i_biotech_lab
-,i_math_lab
-,i_cs_lab
-,i_home_lab
-,i_library
-,i_other_lab
-
- Each of -
- School Teacher Details (21 fields)
- Each of -
_no
(number),_trained
(trained),_untrained
(untrained) of t_ntts
- NTTs: Nursery Teacher Trainingt_prts
- PRTs: PRimary Teacher (1-5th, diploma in education)t_tgts
- TGTs: Trained Graduate Teacher (6-10th, grad in subject, B.Ed)t_librarians
- Librarianst_ptis
- PTIs: Physical Training Instructort_pgts
- PGTs: Post Graduate Teacher (11-12th, post grad in subject, B.Ed)t_execs
- Executive (Vice Principal/Supervisor/Head Master/Head Mistress) Teacher
- Each of -
- School Physical Infrastructure Details (10 fields)
optional float p_area_meter
Area of school (in m^2)optional float p_area_acre
Area of school (in acre)optional float p_area_builtup_meter
Built-up area of school (in m^2)optional Sites p_num_sites
Number of sites this school is at (e.g. ONE, TWO)optional float p_area_playground
Area of playground (in m^2)optional UrinalType p_urinal_type
Type of urinals (e.g. flush, dry)optional int p_boys_urinal
Number of boys urinalsoptional int p_girls_urinal
Number of girls urinalsoptional bool p_potable_water
Whether the water is drinkableoptional bool p_health_cert
Whether the school has an Oficial Health and Sanitary certificate
- School Facilities Details (12 fields)
optional int f_total_books
Number of total booksoptional int f_periodicals
Number of periodicalsoptional int f_dailies
Number of dailiesoptional int f_reference_books
Number of reference booksoptional int f_magazine
Number of magazinesoptional bool f_swimming_pool
Swimming Pool? (yes/no)optional bool f_indoor_games
Indoor games? (yes/no)optional bool f_dance_rooms
Dance rooms? (yes/no)optional bool f_gym
Gym? (yes/no)optional bool f_music_rooms
Music rooms? (yes/no)optional bool f_hostel
Hostel? (yes/no)optional bool f_health_checkup
Health checkup? (yes/no)
CISCE
The CISCE is the privately run national board of education in India. It’s largely based in West Bengal, and is the leading competitor to the CBSE. We’ve fetched 16 fields per CISCE school. The detailed documentation and the data can be found in the Github repository.
required string name
Name of the schoolrequired string code
5-digit unique code for school (e.g. AP001)required string address
Postal Addressrequired State state
Indian State or Union Territory (or Country/City if international)optional Phone off_ph_no
Office Phone number. Integral phone number that may be prefixed with ‘+’.optional Phone off_ph_no_2
Office Phone number 2.optional Phone fax_no
Fax number.optional string email
Email addressoptional string website
Website of the schoolrequired Gender gender
Gender of the school students (e.g. Co-ed, Boys, Girls)optional ResidentialType res_type
Residential Type (e.g. D/R, Day)required AffiliationType aff_type
Affiliation type of the school (e.g Permanent, Provisional)required bool is_icse
Does this school administer ICSE (Class X examinations)required bool is_isc
Does this school administer ISC (Class XII examinations)required bool is_cve
Does this school administer CVE (Certificate of Vocational Education)required string princi_name
Name of the principal.