Your post is confusing. Here is my advice: investigate the use of
dictionaries. Dictionaries can allow you to define data in the form {
key:data }, e.g.
{ area_code : area_data }
{ (area_code,school_code) : school_data }
{ (school_code,student_code) : student_data }
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