Education and training in Medellín
Also compare 2024 AM/PM school meals, enrollment, passing, failing and dropout counts in two layers with 779 records each. Explore 248 higher-education and vocational-training records in a separate layer. Locate public and non-public school sites, inspect their parent establishment and compare loaded records by sector, service, district or neighborhood. Use the analysis tools to explore sites within an area or near a point.
Explore these layers ↗School records include a 2024 reference year. Counts do not measure educational quality or current vacancies. Published zeros are retained; do not sum overlapping layers as unique sites or students. The higher-education and training layer does not declare a global update date; its 248 records do not equal 248 universities. Check each record’s reference year: the service does not declare an update date. Records count sites, not unique institutions; several sites may share a location. Published status does not confirm current service, vacancies or enrollment. Proximity is measured in a straight line, not as walking time.
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Geovisor view · Municipal Disaster Risk Management Plan scenarios, City of Medellín. Reference mapping: not alerts or events.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Education and training include in the Medellín geovisor?
In Medellín’s Education and training you can explore 4 layers: AM/PM school meals · 2024 records, Enrollment and school outcomes · 2024 records, Higher education and vocational training and 1 more. Each layer states its source, date and use limits.
Can I reuse the Education and training data?
According to each layer’s published license: Inventario público municipal · licencia específica no indicada, Cartografía pública municipal · licencia específica no indicada, and CC BY-SA 4.0. Check the exact license on the layer record before reuse.
How current are the Education and training data?
No dataset-wide date has been verified for these layers; check each source’s limits. Last GeoSAT verification: 2026-09-28.
How do I explore Education and training in the viewer?
Click “Explore these layers” to open the prepared Education and training query; review enabled layers under Layers. Filter by exact field and value, select features to read their records, and export received results with attribution and dates.
Who publishes the Education and training data?
Layers come from Distrito Especial de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín · GeoMedellín · Adaptación GeoSAT: selección y nombres de atributos públicos; geometría WGS84 transformada por el servicio de origen sin simplificación · Secretaría de Educación, Distrito de Medellín · GeoMedellín · Secretaría de Educación · Adaptación GeoSAT: selección de atributos institucionales públicos, nombre normalizado y coordenadas WGS84 transformadas por el servicio de origen, and Distrito Especial de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín · GeoMedellín · Departamento Administrativo de Planeación, Subdirección de Prospectiva, Información y Evaluación Estratégica · Secretaría de Educación · Adaptación GeoSAT: selección de atributos y reproyección, retrieved and adapted by GeoSAT with per-record attribution and provenance.
Which other themes can I explore?
Other themes in the Medellín geovisor: Metro, cableways and tram, Road infrastructure and taxi stands, and Walking and tactical urbanism.
Sources, dates and limits
Each source’s verification date appears in the table. Retrieval time is not the data update date. Small city-wide layers use the full extent; larger layers depend on the visible area. Reference publications retain their original retrieval date. Each page contains up to 500 features: up to 2 MiB for external services and 4 MiB for local publications. Reference publications load matching pages, up to 5,000 features and 8 MiB per query. External services may return partial samples, identified in the viewer.
| Layer and source | Data date | Reuse |
|---|---|---|
| AM/PM school meals · 2024 recordsDistrito Especial de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín · GeoMedellín · Adaptación GeoSAT: selección y nombres de atributos públicos; geometría WGS84 transformada por el servicio de origen sin simplificación · Secretaría de Educación 779 school-site records for the published 2024 period. Metadata defines the measure as students receiving the AM/PM food strategy within the school. All 303 published zeros are retained; the source does not explain whether each zero means no beneficiaries or missing reporting. Other measures with undocumented abbreviations are omitted. Locations repeat the educational inventory and outcomes layer: do not sum these layers as unique sites or students. Records do not confirm places, menus, eligibility or current provision. No precise update date or specific reuse license is declared. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | Inventario público municipal · licencia específica no indicada |
| Enrollment and school outcomes · 2024 recordsDistrito Especial de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín · GeoMedellín · Adaptación GeoSAT: selección y nombres de atributos públicos; geometría WGS84 transformada por el servicio de origen sin simplificación · Secretaría de Educación 779 school-site records for the published 2024 period, with enrollment, passing, failing and dropout totals. In every record, the three outcomes sum to enrollment; source rates are omitted and percentage averages are not presented. There are 58 zero-enrollment records; these do not establish closure or no actual students. There are 776 distinct names and 777 distinct coordinates: records are not deduplicated by name or position. Do not sum this layer with school meals or sites as unique institutions. Counts describe the 2024 record, not educational quality, causation, available places or current enrollment. No precise update date or specific reuse license is declared. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | Inventario público municipal · licencia específica no indicada |
| Higher education and vocational trainingDistrito de Medellín · GeoMedellín · Secretaría de Educación · Adaptación GeoSAT: selección de atributos institucionales públicos, nombre normalizado y coordenadas WGS84 transformadas por el servicio de origen 248 records from the “Instituciones Superiores” service: 215 are classified as vocational training and 33 as other higher-education types. There are 241 names and 229 distinct locations; these are not 248 unique institutions or campuses. The service declares no update date. Points do not confirm current operation, accreditation, programs, admissions, hours or availability. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | Cartografía pública municipal · licencia específica no indicada |
| School sitesDistrito Especial de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín · GeoMedellín · Departamento Administrativo de Planeación, Subdirección de Prospectiva, Información y Evaluación Estratégica · Secretaría de Educación · Adaptación GeoSAT: selección de atributos y reproyección | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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