mcp-cps-data MCP server

A MCP server project for exposing a local SQLite database and a local LanceDB vector database with information on Chicago Public Schools

Components

Tools

The server implements two tools:

• query_schools_and_neighborhoods: Excecute a SELECT query on a table of Chicago public schools and their neighborhoods called "schooltoneighborhood" with the following schema: (id INTEGER NOT NULL, created_at DATETIME NOT NULL, school_id INTEGER NOT NULL, school_name VARCHAR NOT NULL, neighborhood VARCHAR NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id)).
  • Takes required parameter query
• query_school_websites: Query a database of Chicago public school websites for context relevant to answering a given question.
  • Takes required parameter question and optional parameter school_name.

Configuration

Get the SQlite database and the LanceDB vector database from the [cps-childcare] project(https://github.com/mdagost/cps-childcare).

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration:

  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-cps-data": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/path/to/mcp-cps-data",
        "run",
        "mcp-cps-data",
        "--sqlite-path",
        "/path/to/cps_crawler.db",
        "--lancedb-path",
        "/path/to/embeddings.lancedb"
      ]
    }
  }

Debugging

Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the MCP Inspector.

You can launch the MCP Inspector via npm with this command:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /path/to/mcp-cps-data run mcp-cps-data --sqlite-path /path/to/cps_crawler.db --lancedb-path /path/to/embeddings.lancedb

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.