Tag:amenity=school
 amenity = school
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A primary or secondary school (pupils typically aged 6 to 18). 
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Status: approved
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Use amenity=school to identify a place where pupils, normally between the ages of about 6 and 18 are taught under the supervision of teachers. This includes, according to the ISCED:
- primary schools (ISCED 1, tagged with isced:level=1) and
- secondary schools (ISCED 2 and 3, tagged with isced:level=2;3), in some countries called high schools .
For other educational establishments, see
- amenity=kindergarten (ISCED 0),
- amenity=college and amenity=university (ISCED 5-8)
- further facilities.
For school ground see the feature landuse=education.
How to map
There are several standard situations regarding schools. Each school should be mapped only once. Don't double them.
Schools can be further defined by the following tags::
- operator=* – Name of operator, often the local education authority.
- operator:type=* – type of operator, e.g. community / religious / private / government
- Address and other contact details
- capacity=*, the maximum number of pupils the school can accept
- isced:level=*, for the educational level according to the ISCED scale
- grades=* – Which grades the school provides, can be used in conjunction with isced:level=*
- min_age=* and max_age=* to indicate age range of children that attend the school
- fee=yes if the school requires a direct charge for core services.
- religion=*, if the school is associated with a particular religion (also denomination=*)
- ref=*, if school has a reference number
Single school on one site
If you have a single school on one ground, mark the boundary of the school using an Area 
or place a Node 
in the middle of the site if you are in a hurry (or don't have access to information about the boundary and it is not obvious from aerial imagery). If you use a Area it is also optional to mark the area with landuse=education too, but it is not neccessary.
Multiple school on one site
When one ore more schools share their grounds use the following schema. This also applies when schools share a site with other amenity=*.
- Mark the outer boundary of the shared school grounds/campus/area using an area with the tag landuse=education. If this shared area has its own name, tag this as well.
- For each school or other amenity tag a node at an appropriate place within this area, or if the school has its own building for its exclusive use on the grounds, add the amenity-tag to the building outline . Make sure that there is only one OSM-element for each school. Add the school's details to the relevant amenities.
School with multiple sites
Schools with multiple sites are more complicaded. So far, mainly Relation:multipolygon have been used there.
Because a school not every time is marked as areas, the Relation:site should rather be used. But here don't exist any consensus in the community.
- Use a Relation
with type=site, amenity=school, name=*, ... for the school. - Add each site (area, building, note) to the relation.
Campus details
Several details can be added when drawing the complete school campus.
- building=school is used for purpose-built school buildings (reused buildings keep their building type).
- appropriate additional tags can be added to the building, for example amenity=swimming_pool.
- entrance=* and if appropriate barrier=gate can be considered for the points where roads, paths or other access routes into the school grounds cross the boundary of the school. Building entrances can be mapped with a node on the building outline, with one of the following tags:
- leisure=pitch is used for individual sports pitches. Where an individual sport can be identified, sport=* and surface=grass/asphalt/... can be added.
- leisure=sports_hall is used for indoor sports facilities, if purpose-built with building=sports_hall.
- landuse=grass is used for areas of grass, possibly covering multiple pitches or used for other purposes.
- leisure=schoolyard is an open space in schools, specifically for recreation but usually without playground infrastructure.
- leisure=playground is often found on primary school grounds with infrastructure such as playground=climbingframe etc.
Disambiguation
Typical facilities outside the scope of amenity=school are:
- amenity=college – Institute of Further Education (similar to Continuing Education). Not the same as a "college" in American English.
- amenity=university – Institute of Higher Education
- amenity=kindergarten – Kindergarten, play group or preschool
amenity=preschool– deprecated; use amenity=kindergarten or amenity=childcare- Specialty schools:
- amenity=dancing_school – also see leisure=dance dance:teaching=yes
- amenity=driving_school – Motor vehicle driving lessons
- amenity=flight_school – Proposed. Training to fly an aircraft. Also see amenity=college
- amenity=language_school – an educational institution where one studies a foreign language
- amenity=music_school – Music school
- amenity=prep_school – Standardized test preparation school, other than a British preparatory school (which nominally prepares for the w:Common Entrance Examination), or an American college-preparatory school (for which, use amenity=school).
- amenity=ski_school
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