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DistrictAPI for VS Code

dev.districtapi/districtapi-mcp

US public school districts and schools by address — enrollment, demographics, boundaries

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install DistrictAPI in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "districtapi-key",
      "description": "DISTRICTAPI_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "districtapi-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "districtapi-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DISTRICTAPI_KEY": "${input:districtapi-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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