Monday, September 06, 2010   
 
TASA's Enhanced Demographic Service
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Facing any of these in your district?

  • Unexpected change in enrollment
  • Changes in ethnic mix
  • Residential Construction
  • Suburbanization by nearby large city

Then you might need TASA's Enhanced Demographic Services

  Demography is the scientific study of population change. TASA's Enhanced Demographic Service brings the tools of demography to bear for school districts expecting population changes. If your district is experiencing a demographic change or expecting one, our experts will help you understand what's happening, and make plans for it.

TASA Enhanced Demographics provides your district the services of professional demographic consultants, experienced in producing school enrollment projections for school districts in Texas. Whether your district is fast-growing, stable, or shrinking, our experts can provide you with useful insight you need to plan for the future.

TASA provides an integrated solution to facility planning
The enrollment projections from TASA's Enhanced Demographic Services are one of the chief inputs to TASA's Facility Planning Services. Long-range infrastructure planning requires long-range demographic projections.

You don't have to buy the integrated package-the enhanced demographic services can be purchased separately.


Enrollment Projections. Our custom service includes ten-year enrollment projections by grade and campus for the entire district. These projections are based on analysis of the district's past and current trends in land use, residential construction, enrollment, and population.

How We Make Our Projections


Going through the projection process the first time involves quite an effort, but updating it is not as hard. We can arrange to update your projections on a regular basis, at a substantial savings.

Land Use Analysis. What's the build-out capacity of your district, and when will it get there? We can answer these questions and others by studying the geography of your district and projecting how and when the land will be developed.

Design of Attendance Zones. We can transform the student addresses in your enrollment files into a map with a mark for each student's location. These maps can be used for designing school attendance zone boundaries. Comparing maps over time shows how different areas of the district are changing.

Training and Follow-up. When the analysis is complete, we don't just give you a final report. We will present our results to the public and to the board, and explain how they were done. If you want us to update your projections annually, we can do that. Alternatively, we can train your staff to use the necessary data and software to develop your district's own analytic capability. TASA has been providing these services for years, and we plan to be here for as long as you need us.