You are asked to assign schools to students within a district. Which ArcGIS Pro method could you use to add an attribute to students based on the school boundary in which they reside?

The method to use in this scenario is the Spatial Join. This technique allows you to analyze the spatial relationship between two datasets: in this case, the student locations and the school boundaries. By performing a spatial join, you can append attributes from the school layer to the student layer based on their geographic locations—specifically, which school boundary each student point falls within.

With a spatial join, you can create a new feature class that includes each student's information tied to the corresponding school's attributes. This process is essential for efficiently assigning students to their respective schools based on where they live within the district.

The other methods listed do not function in the same way for this specific task. For example, Intersect is used to find the geometric intersection of two layers, producing outputs that may not directly relate to assigning schools by boundary. Count Overlapping Features would only provide a tally of how many features overlap but would not create a student-specific assignment. The Union method creates a new feature class by merging geometries from both layers, which might not yield the simplified assignment task needed here. Thus, the Spatial Join is the most effective method for attributing school information to student locations.