Tag:education=school

A school.

How to map

Draw an area along its outline. Add education=school, amenity=school and name=*.

History

The tag education=school has been used in several ways, none of which are very common:

1. A primary or secondary school (pupils typically aged 6 to 18). In this case the tag amenity=school is much more common, and is usually added as well. This has mostly been used in Russia: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14fR
2. To specify the type of education building feature, e.g. building=education or building=yes plus education=school. However it is much more common to use building=school for a building that was designed to hold primary or secondary school classrooms. This has been used in Cameroon and several other places: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14fQ
3. To specify a damaged or destroyed school building. This has been used in Bengaledesh: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14fq
4. Combined with other types of education or training tags, e.g amenity=kindergarten or amenity=training - this was mostly used in southern Russia: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14fr

Notes on usage

The (relatively) high taginfo usage is likely because the iD editor pushes this tag as an "upgrade". See this discussion on the forum about the problems associated with that.

Whenever duplicate tagging of this kind happens, always be careful to ensure that if one tag is removed or changed (perhaps to `disused:amenity=school`) that the duplicate tag is too (to `disused:education=school`).