school
Let an agent handle a school as an educational institution, facility or building, describe the institution's legal status, stage, curriculum and duties of care, distinguish institutional records from premises records, and distinguish these senses from education as an activity.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Identity and status Which school, run by whom, under what status.
Registration
The official register entry.
Register entry
The register, the number and the current status.
- What is this school official register number and status? provenance
- Has it been renamed, merged or closed, and when? provenance
Operator and funding
Who runs and pays for it.
Operator and funding
The legal operator and the funding model.
- Who operates this school, and how is it funded? definition
- Which rules differ because of that status? boundary
Education offered Stages, curriculum and qualifications.
Stage and ages
The stages and age range served.
Stages served
The stages and their ISCED equivalents.
- Which stages and ages does this school serve? definition
- How do those stages map onto ISCED levels? measurement
Curriculum and qualifications
What is taught and certified.
Curriculum and awards
The curriculum followed and qualifications awarded.
- Which curriculum does it follow, and which qualifications does it award? definition
- How are those qualifications recognised elsewhere? boundary
Admission and access Who can attend and how.
Admission rules
Criteria, catchment and capacity.
Admission criteria
The rules and the body that applies them.
- What are the admission criteria, and who decides applications? definition
- How can a refused application be appealed? action
Accessibility and support
Provision for learners with additional needs.
Support provision
The support available and how it is arranged.
- What provision exists for learners with disabilities or additional needs? definition
- Is the site physically accessible, and to what standard? measurement
Quality and safeguarding How good and how safe it is.
Inspection
Ratings and reports.
Inspection results
The latest rating, date and inspectorate.
- What did the latest inspection find, and when was it? measurement
- How far can that rating be compared with other schools? boundary
Safeguarding and records
Duties of care and data about children.
Safeguarding duties
The duties in force and the limits on disclosure.
- Who is responsible for safeguarding, and how are concerns reported? action
- What information about pupils must never be disclosed? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ORG
- Other names and narrower kinds
- palaestra, government school, single-sex school, boarding school, Zemstvo school, sibyan maktab, Rosenwald School, national secondary school, national type chinese secondary school, Tamil national type school, Chinese national type school, national school
What it is Filled
An institution that provides organised education to learners, usually in groups, following a curriculum and staffed by teachers, often at defined stages of schooling, or a facility or building used for such education.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle a school as an educational institution, facility or building, describe the institution's legal status, stage, curriculum and duties of care, distinguish institutional records from premises records, and distinguish these senses from education as an activity.
Distinguishing features Filled
- A school can be an institution identified by registration and governance or a facility or building used for education.
- A school institution operates at a stage of education defined by the national system.
- A school institution carries duties of care toward minors that most organisations do not.
- Schools are funded and governed publicly, privately or in mixtures that change what rules apply.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Disclose pupils' personal data or records beyond what the law permits.
- Contact pupils directly bypassing the school and their parents.
- Present inspection ratings from different bodies or dates as directly comparable.
- Impersonate a school or its staff in messages to parents or pupils.
Only with a human decision
- Enrolment, exclusion or transfer decisions about a learner.
- Reporting a safeguarding concern about a pupil or staff member.
May
- Find and report public information about a school, such as status, stage and inspection results.
- Help families contact a school through its official channels.
Moral aspects Filled
- Schools hold children in their care; safeguarding comes first.
- School choice and ratings affect equality of opportunity across communities.
Who is affected
- Pupils and learners
- Parents and carers
- Teachers and staff
Owners Filled
Steward
The governing body or proprietor; the education authority for public schools.
Master systems
- National register of schools
- Education inspectorate records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q5341295 - registry parent class
related
- organisation - inherits identity, governance and legal status
- building - the building is a separate model and can change
- teacher - teachers are the occupation model, with their own qualifications
- school of thought - a homonym; this entry is the educational institution
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.school
- Wikidata: Q3914 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3914)
- national school register number: country-specific the authoritative identifier, for example a URN in England
- ISCED level: 0-3 for school stages places the school stage in an international classification
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Signage and an official registration number help identify the institution, while premises information identifies a school facility or building.
- A campus may host several schools, and one school may use several sites.
- Uniforms, where used, identify a school only locally and are easily copied.
- Usually one or more buildings with classrooms and outdoor space; but a school can be online, can share buildings, and can outlive the building it started in.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- enrol a learner, subject to admission rules and capacity
- inspect and rate it, which public bodies do in most countries
- contact it through its official channels for records and decisions
- open, merge or close it, through a regulated procedure
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing the school with its building or its site
- Treating ratings from different inspectorates or dates as comparable
- Disclosing information about children beyond what the law permits
- Missing a closure or merger, so enquiries go to an institution that no longer exists
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National education acts and curriculum regulations
- UNESCO ISCED 2011 classification of education levels
- Safeguarding and child protection law in each jurisdiction
- Data protection law covering records of minors
Context of use required Filled
- Educating learners in a structured way, and certifying their progress.
- by stage: pre-primary, primary, lower and upper secondary, vocational
- by funding: public, private, publicly funded independent
- by admission: comprehensive, selective, specialist
- by mode: day, boarding, online, home-school umbrella
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q3914: school - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: School - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should the registry separate the institution, the site and the legal operator of a school?
- How should school stages map across countries where ISCED equivalence is approximate?
- What may an agent say about a school when the only available rating is out of date?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q3914/spec.json