Currently Dr. Lapkoff and Dr. Gobalet
offer two half-day workshops on “Demographic Analyses for School
Districts” aimed at administrative personnel who wish to conduct
their own analyses and enrollment forecasts.
Enrollment Forecasting Workshop: Pragmatic training
- Current demographic trends (in the client's school district,
county, and state)
- Enrollment forecasting tools:
- Standard demographic methods of enrollment forecasting
- Estimating kindergarten enrollments
- Accounting for student turnover, migration, and
neighborhood life cycles
- Birth trends
- Data sources and web sites
- Interesting ways to present enrollment forecasts to your
Board and the public
GIS Workshop: Live demonstration of how computer mapping
can be used for school analyses
- What can be done with your data
- Pin-map students electronically and make maps by school
attended, grade level, ethnicity, language proficiency, test
scores, programs
- Study inter- and intra-district transfer patterns
- Realign attendance boundaries
- Select new school sites: help identify schools for
possible closure
- Data available from the Census and how to map it
(demonstrated using data from school district or county);
demonstration of Census data downloads
- Private school enrollment rates
- Socioeconomic variables
- Language proficiency
- GIS operational basics
- Geographic layers and sources
- Data layers and sources
- Aggregating and combining features
- Splitting layers
- Creating customized geographic and data layers
- Software operations
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