Understanding how population shifts will affect district enrollment and subsequent capacity needs over the next five to ten years is a critical component of facility planning and budgeting. Identifying which schools are experiencing growth and which schools find themselves with empty classrooms can help key decision makers not only determine how to most effectively utilize their existing building portfolio to address the needs of their students, but also where to allocate staff resources and how to calculate annual operating budget needs. Our staff demographers use a combination of cohort survival and grade retention techniques to project enrollment, employing Geographic Information Systems technology to assist in student address mapping and real-time attendance boundary planning.
