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Pakistan government schools: positions, provenance and distance to the girls' school

Name: Pakistan government schools: positions, provenance and distance to the girls' school
Creator: Adaad
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The school layer behind How far is the girls' school?: every listed government school with its position and how that position was obtained, the district distances by sex, the coverage ledger and the tests of the layer against the Mouza Census 2020.

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Source and definitions

Provincial school registers read from their public portals in August and September 2026 (SED Balochistan; Sindh SELD Institution Checker and Distance Checker with RSU district GIS pins; KP Education Monitoring Authority locator and the JSiMS mirror of KP EMIS; Punjab SIS; GB EMIS; Mirpur and Kotli exam boards; OpenStreetMap for Islamabad), WorldPop 2020, the Malaria Atlas friction surface, PBS Census 2023 Table 13(b) and the PBS Mouza Census 2020 microdata.

Distances: population-weighted median kilometres (straight line) and walking minutes. Enrolment: per cent of the population aged 5–16. Validation ratios: schools in the layer divided by rural villages reporting an institution of that sex and level. Rank correlations: Spearman.

Before using these figures

Positions are not all GPS fixes. Of 121,020 positioned schools, 82,294 are school-level (GPS at source in Balochistan and KP; RSU pins or positions multilaterated from the SELD distance checker in Sindh); 19,982 sit at a named settlement, 8,179 at a Punjab markaz centroid and 9,777 at a Punjab tehsil centroid. Read coord_method and coord_precision before mapping anything. Networks are by name designation; in Sindh most designated boys' schools are officially Mixed and enrol girls, so the Sindh gap is reported under three definitions. The ex-FATA merged districts and eight of AJK's ten districts have no public locations and are absent. Every position is one a department has itself published, or that follows from distances its own public checker returns; the tables add no staff names or contact details.

Canonical copy: https://darbar.adaad.org/datasets/schools-pk/. Data Darbar holds the canonical, queryable copy of these tables and will carry later releases; this page is the snapshot the piece was published with.

schools_pk_2026-09.csv.gz

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One row per listed government school (gzip CSV, 3.6 MB). Column definitions and a browser query console are on Data Darbar.

school_access_districts.csv

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school_access_districts.csv — first 50 rows; download the CSV for the full table
region	district	district_name	all_km	boys_km	girls_km	all_min	boys_min	girls_min	gap_km	gap_min	tt_caveat
AJK (Mirpur+Kotli)	kotli	Kotli	1.7861445912037484	2.247820024960379	1.994520500767387	31.531795992198955	38.68392058282595	33.943879058910454	-0.253299524192992	-4.740041523915494	Unavailable
AJK (Mirpur+Kotli)	mirpur	Mirpur	1.7460236177623858	2.0063092352090344	1.862029188163525	28.97056198120117	29.174217224121094	29.04265369836661	-0.1442800470455094	-0.1315635257544798	Unavailable
Balochistan	awaran	Awaran	10.901569961346755	10.968986752694487	18.139717047617246	225.68082180760976	226.34770798101653	362.566573937734	7.170730294922757	136.21886595671737	mountain/desert: upper bound
Balochistan	barkhan	Barkhan	3.617051048580525	4.395366559841619	4.735765800478753	67.91913955667293	82.35659485016944	89.40661930919984	0.3403992406371339	7.050024459030396	Unavailable
Balochistan	chaghi	Chaghi	15.210182122157486	15.238581269120951	21.53682502144907	315.9795078409129	316.5827937270656	437.2807176530094	6.298243752328116	120.69792392594384	Unavailable
Balochistan	derabugti	Dera Bugti	8.636602300278348	8.77929190256708	15.300196440729255	167.68636160848288	169.10403807758604	283.4986111655164	6.520904538162178	114.39457308793038	Unavailable
Balochistan	gwadar	Gwadar	6.797007576380004	7.147131069547775	13.852053381063584	122.635405438403	128.735362943532	254.05242272397624	6.704922311515809	125.31705978044424	Unavailable
Balochistan	harnai	Harnai	3.03475805454369	3.275662649695453	4.235942304971831	54.05656686043443	59.70902330453335	78.1070081032257	0.960279655276378	18.39798479869234	Unavailable
Balochistan	jaffarabad	Jaffarabad	1.9546635348556551	2.078388334638497	3.0711467433595385	33.941123962402344	36.16085328587464	54.18181641734871	0.9927584087210416	18.02096313147408	Unavailable
Balochistan	jhalmagsi	Jhal Magsi	4.449812279071597	4.93881866018968	7.753541317381563	82.55436437270221	91.77398658906009	139.38208449634155	2.814722657191883	47.60809790728148	Unavailable
Balochistan	kachhi	Kachhi	4.503446125356422	4.809962144293086	6.463810638559546	82.80427257522257	87.96580836732508	121.37391073702727	1.6538484942664595	33.40810236970219	Unavailable
Balochistan	kalat	Kalat	4.064296515896413	4.684659612425215	6.76081019604376	87.4172889566369	98.6638506158724	145.38099130259937	2.0761505836185448	46.71714068672696	Unavailable
Balochistan	kech	Kech	2.7001143361662745	2.9581546671887584	4.1192075298800575	51.842144104115214	56.63955229667768	77.47829232897077	1.161052862691299	20.83874003229309	Unavailable
Balochistan	kharan	Kharan	11.651044879292074	12.082175002659222	16.62525271756645	262.3506666022675	265.63316870535465	371.4134295136286	4.543077714907229	105.78026080827397	mountain/desert: upper bound
Balochistan	khuzdar	Khuzdar	7.073710278872554	8.298998124024893	11.82862607369681	140.9892138078554	164.910061307967	230.95232269382777	3.5296279496719176	66.04226138586077	Unavailable
Balochistan	killaabdullah	Killa Abdullah	3.062371059348992	3.163388202198104	6.920376966084644	69.77226476270856	70.60456697592842	144.21887136875898	3.75698876388654	73.61430439283056	Unavailable
Balochistan	killasaifullah	Killa Saifullah	4.741335349957514	4.919133289269343	8.968617272641437	95.96485970963867	100.69934780947813	169.4870039930729	4.0494839833720935	68.78765618359479	Unavailable
Balochistan	kohlu	Kohlu	5.426850412915422	5.517343735356254	15.89084221716156	108.17176511793149	108.7841527772209	269.5324194269078	10.373498481805306	160.74826664968688	Unavailable
Balochistan	lasbela	Lasbela	3.336244765737544	3.59572854963551	5.672163918125013	52.68360142075013	56.21660131115979	85.95542630669792	2.076435368489503	29.738824995538124	Unavailable
Balochistan	loralai	Loralai	4.748180989738856	4.926603792142851	8.229850642644665	87.5011047916991	91.48712229639403	151.42409984627267	3.3032468505018144	59.93697754987864	Unavailable
Balochistan	mastung	Mastung	2.476967769187016	2.7645845686636448	3.468740948250744	45.204500395764455	50.38245976965459	66.18471092277474	0.7041563795870989	15.802251153120151	Unavailable
Balochistan	musakhail	Musakhail	7.100551656637398	7.230726648965541	15.859484370418263	144.23928245135454	146.52737204039354	298.65302036760846	8.628757721452722	152.12564832721492	Unavailable
Balochistan	nasirabad	Nasirabad	3.171500117212026	3.451873295353969	5.452265275022687	59.10425598767339	65.4166719254497	100.18820052228732	2.000391979668718	34.77152859683761	Unavailable
Balochistan	nushki	Nushki	4.18317357976481	4.8617243566155	5.432179409155761	89.04106966778879	102.1055740520461	111.10604744063778	0.5704550525402619	9.000473388591686	Unavailable
Balochistan	panjgur	Panjgur	6.665141082946164	7.018887921485597	12.705600800828792	142.52942896735738	147.77972882515203	264.3001393393038	5.686712879343196	116.5204105141518	Unavailable
Balochistan	pishin	Pishin	2.165723230276483	2.4266799642705776	3.239256727785618	38.45482376633934	42.5250261639412	55.59794632487375	0.8125767635150405	13.072920160932554	Unavailable
Balochistan	quetta	Quetta	0.6883383004711318	0.9943505397890762	0.8532565156679599	12.0	12.011645286644526	12.0	-0.1410940241211162	-0.0116452866445264	Unavailable
Balochistan	sherani	Sherani	6.599979765657946	6.668738719004357	12.757899279485098	146.024573748229	149.4437443066356	303.6411983142653	6.0891605604807415	154.1974540076297	Unavailable
Balochistan	sibi	Sibi	4.137469818702468	4.261135942788364	5.750966021418373	75.39067558926706	77.12835923802625	99.9197814158542	1.4898300786300087	22.79142217782794	Unavailable
Balochistan	sohbatpur	Sohbatpur	1.6304155316507554	1.942794329875737	2.310044362947432	27.0470410291008	33.02015131025143	39.049325660320456	0.3672500330716945	6.029174350069027	Unavailable
Balochistan	washuk	Washuk	17.94667750604945	18.53763140464697	30.69254107667476	409.5827140735537	420.1713058104162	665.2249615149584	12.154909672027784	245.05365570454225	mountain/desert: upper bound
Balochistan	zhob	Zhob	6.151854291393972	6.23650172266223	22.535910602353685	123.00685514041844	123.66167814073124	425.9281194965077	16.299408879691455	302.26644135577646	mountain/desert: upper bound
Balochistan	ziarat	Ziarat	3.631076928219321	3.999924197564686	4.650881918396026	80.24128748564983	89.06750738712913	104.02152791681648	0.65095772083134	14.954020529687355	Unavailable
Gilgit-Baltistan	astor	Astor	5.645016987477662	5.722452887871634	6.8724354869966335	222.63790531092735	224.89351316723287	274.23486082109974	1.149982599125	49.34134765386688	GB: friction unreliable (1.5 km/h implied) - shape only
Gilgit-Baltistan	diamir	Diamir	7.255465246400471	7.688240139387682	8.279262538849657	324.38622154641723	333.19126818447774	360.5946549134457	0.5910223994619752	27.403386728967973	GB: friction unreliable (1.5 km/h implied) - shape only
Gilgit-Baltistan	ghanchi	Ghanchi	2.543428162949053	2.729517335049765	4.024314335336624	132.96408643816957	135.58131636558824	178.59290927407176	1.2947970002868583	43.01159290848352	GB: friction unreliable (1.5 km/h implied) - shape only
Gilgit-Baltistan	ghizer	Ghizer	5.251540516652598	5.345913969867106	7.265821578107916	225.60277237099712	227.51109267065064	269.6940944335629	1.91990760824081	42.18300176291231	GB: friction unreliable (1.5 km/h implied) - shape only
Gilgit-Baltistan	gilgit	Gilgit	3.393009227306381	3.5090488644344418	3.5810663272347663	114.01918217785592	118.77897274009622	118.29686617283248	0.0720174628003245	-0.4821065672637559	GB: friction unreliable (1.5 km/h implied) - shape only
Gilgit-Baltistan	hunzanagar	Hunza Nagar	5.102873834426524	6.034725622677298	6.261611439612767	196.91099889453503	206.9804425096778	221.1666174529383	0.2268858169354688	14.18617494326051	GB: friction unreliable (1.5 km/h implied) - shape only
Gilgit-Baltistan	skardu	Skardu	4.259418564605512	4.454000614186004	6.212017771161639	172.97959263392858	179.69173580917283	246.33789032736436	1.7580171569756349	66.64615451819151	GB: friction unreliable (1.5 km/h implied) - shape only
Islamabad (ICT)	islamabad	Islamabad	2.1779224789914964	2.756814455823435	2.5402739306011823	28.97056198120117	36.0	33.941123962402344	-0.2165405252222525	-2.058876037597656	Unavailable
KP (settled)	abbottabad	Abbottabad	0.9299888056738812	1.2051246848767718	1.3072517033994275	14.937506612350054	16.970561981201172	20.66487518485032	0.1021270185226557	3.694313203649149	Unavailable
KP (settled)	bannu	Bannu	0.8345959479662975	1.0516567886857673	1.0690668134929753	12.8567565507667	15.766338430632382	15.952550756432824	0.0174100248072079	0.1862123258004402	Unavailable
KP (settled)	batagram	Batagram	1.5187772453228832	1.6221258425941505	2.788427722356798	44.96885611076405	47.9683368644141	71.9173553516214	1.1663018797626477	23.949018487207297	Unavailable
KP (settled)	buner	Buner	1.2608471034095547	1.3915685823996775	1.9556209846131631	25.02073696401884	27.29043990599616	37.112747357864336	0.5640524022134854	9.82230745186818	Unavailable
KP (settled)	charsadda	Charsadda	0.9042595267657304	1.049093658063715	1.2012294772326428	12.0	12.0	15.116562428933308	0.1521358191689281	3.1165624289333067	Unavailable
KP (settled)	chitral	Chitral	2.591591079621428	2.754723644906639	4.110041994139971	106.08436776196466	112.46144771911072	158.00836141156157	1.355318349233332	45.54691369245084	Unavailable
KP (settled)	deraismailkhan	Dera Ismail Khan	1.830313686252896	1.992343607951951	2.7968537396483395	29.48530387878418	32.07675543754949	44.86881595187717	0.8045101316963885	12.79206051432768	Unavailable
KP (settled)	hangu	Hangu	1.8560867633427465	2.036289271792447	3.480178623505584	29.937569028460565	32.13771573602301	58.03036635793867	1.4438893517131373	25.892650621915656	Unavailable
KP (settled)	haripur	Haripur	1.0624224582064583	1.3238812201455803	1.3415011160511126	16.970561981201172	19.946587012724365	19.468551891795705	0.017619895905532	-0.4780351209286628	Unavailable

school_access_district_school_counts.csv

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school_access_district_school_counts.csv — first 50 rows; download the CSV for the full table
district	girls_schools	boys_schools	gap_km
Bannu	136	136	0.02
Sudhnutti	2	4	Unavailable
Killa Abdullah	28	71	3.76
Hangu	25	46	1.44
Chiniot	104	96	0.09
Lahore	161	110	-0.38
Islamabad	46	27	-0.22
Charsadda	111	146	0.15
Mardan	199	200	-0.02
Bagh	2	2	Unavailable
Peshawar	170	193	0.01
Bhimber	2	0	Unavailable
Hattian	0	0	Unavailable
Haveli	1	0	Unavailable
Mirpur	65	49	-0.14
Sohbatpur	34	42	0.37
Sherani	8	24	6.09
Orakzai Agency	0	0	Unavailable
Kotli	68	58	-0.25
Muzaffarabad	6	4	Unavailable
Neelum	1	3	Unavailable
Poonch	7	5	Unavailable
Awaran	25	54	7.17
Barkhan	35	34	0.34
Chaghi	30	43	6.3
Dera Bugti	18	59	6.52
Kohlu	4	53	10.37
Gwadar	23	35	6.7
Harnai	23	27	0.96
Jaffarabad	35	76	0.99
Jhal Magsi	24	33	2.81
Kachhi	24	36	1.65
Kalat	46	67	2.08
Kech	76	110	1.16
Kharan	16	28	4.54
Loralai	44	73	3.3
Khuzdar	44	45	3.53
Killa Saifullah	36	59	4.05
Lasbela	41	78	2.08
Mastung	52	46	0.7
Musakhail	21	35	8.63
Nasirabad	30	47	2.0
Nushki	46	43	0.57
Khyber Agency	0	0	Unavailable
Panjgur	40	53	5.69
Pishin	85	112	0.81
Quetta	135	100	-0.14
Sibi	45	54	1.49
Kurram Agency	0	1	Unavailable
Mohmand Agency	1	1	Unavailable

school_access_coverage.csv

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school_access_coverage.csv — data as published
region	sector	schools_in_analysis	schools_known_to_exist	source	gps_origin	quality_tier	coverage_note	mapped	schools_pk_region	rows_in_schools_pk	rows_with_coords	rows_in_analysis	release
Balochistan	government	12980	14709	SED Balochistan open-data portal (sed.gob.pk)	GPS at source	A	88% of listed schools geolocated	yes	Balochistan	14709	12980	12980	2026-09
Sindh	government	39741	41383	SELD Institution Checker roster (checker.sindheducation.gov.pk) + RSU district GIS pins + positions multilaterated from SELD Distance Checker distances	GPS at source (SELD); 58% confirmed by an RSU pin within 300 m	A	30 districts and every taluka; functional schools only; 22 without a position; girls' and boys' networks by name designation (GG/GB), the official SEMIS Boys/Girls/Mixed field kept as gender_official	yes	Sindh	41383	41361	39741	2026-09
KP (settled districts)	government	27461	27689	KPEMA public school locator (roster + per-school details); JSiMS coordinates kept for primaries	GPS at source (KPEMA for all non-primary schools and Mardan; JSiMS for 19,120 primaries, median 29 m from KPEMA)	A	25 settled districts incl. Mardan; high schools for all districts; 226 closed or inaccessible excluded; 7 without coordinates	yes	KP (settled)	27689	27682	27461	2026-09
Punjab	government	36295	38148	Punjab SIS roster (sis.pesrp.edu.pk) + gazetteer geocoding	geocoded 95%	B-	48% village precision; gap robust to tier choice; levels not publishable	yes	Punjab	38149	36295	36295	2026-09
Gilgit-Baltistan	government	1355	1906	GB EMIS roster (emis.gilgitbaltistan.gov.pk) + gazetteer geocoding	geocoded 94.6%	B	53% village-or-school precision; friction surface invalid so distance only	yes	Gilgit-Baltistan	1890	1788	1355	2026-09
AJK (Mirpur + Kotli)	government only (private dropped)	763	1367	district exam boards (beemajk.com; ebekotli.dsisajk.net) + gazetteer geocoding	geocoded 58%	C	2 of 10 AJK districts; exam-board rosters mix public and private, so both columns are GOVERNMENT schools only (1,367 listed, 763 geocoded); the middle-or-above subset is 294	partial	AJK (Mirpur+Kotli)	1367	784	763	2026-09
AJK (other 8 districts)	Unavailable	0	4454	none public	none	-	no public school list; province total 6,012 per E&SE dashboard	no	Unavailable	Unavailable	Unavailable	Unavailable	2026-09
ex-FATA / merged districts	government	0	6394	KP ASC 2023-24 counts (pp.205/229-230); KPEMA district aggregates	none	-	6,394 schools: 3,645 boys' / 2,749 girls'; high schools 314 v 108; secondary GPI 0.28 v 0.68 settled; facilities via KPEMA but no locations	no	Unavailable	Unavailable	Unavailable	Unavailable	2026-09
Islamabad (ICT)	federal government only	78	~420	OSM education features (BECS/private excluded)	partial directory	C	~1/3 of the FDE network; 28 boys'/50 girls' points; too thin for high-school class	yes	Islamabad (ICT)	130	130	78	2026-09

school_access_validation_summary.csv

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school_access_validation_summary.csv — data as published
region	level	n	rank_corr_level_girls	rank_corr_share5_girls	rank_corr_gap	sign_agree_gap	rank_corr_gap_share5	release
All	primary	126	0.5	0.66	0.84	0.78	0.78	2026-09
Balochistan	primary	31	0.48	0.57	0.71	1.0	0.38	2026-09
Gilgit-Baltistan	primary	7	0.61	0.14	0.54	0.86	0.46	2026-09
KP	primary	25	0.38	0.53	0.75	0.96	0.5	2026-09
Punjab	primary	35	0.24	0.78	0.48	0.31	0.42	2026-09
Sindh	primary	25	0.36	0.55	0.65	0.96	0.62	2026-09
All	middle	126	0.65	0.75	0.75	0.79	0.65	2026-09
Balochistan	middle	31	0.53	0.58	0.55	0.97	0.18	2026-09
Gilgit-Baltistan	middle	7	0.4	0.14	0.0	1.0	0.29	2026-09
KP	middle	25	0.76	0.82	0.61	0.92	0.82	2026-09
Punjab	middle	35	0.66	0.79	0.65	0.4	0.6	2026-09
Sindh	middle	25	0.39	0.6	0.76	0.96	0.59	2026-09
All	high	125	0.77	0.8	0.57	0.84	0.36	2026-09
Balochistan	high	31	0.72	0.64	0.05	0.94	0.12	2026-09
Gilgit-Baltistan	high	7	0.34	0.25	0.54	0.86	0.39	2026-09
KP	high	25	0.78	0.86	0.68	1.0	0.8	2026-09
Punjab	high	35	0.8	0.85	0.57	0.57	0.48	2026-09
Sindh	high	25	0.56	0.77	0.58	0.96	0.59	2026-09

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Hiba Sameen / Adaad (2026). Pakistan government schools: positions, provenance and distance to the girls' school. https://adaad.org/datasets/pakistan-government-schools/. Adaad’s original analysis is CC BY 4.0. Underlying third-party data retain their own terms. Please credit Adaad and the original sources.

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