School Redistricting and Facility Planning

HMA offers an array of services for school facility planning and school redistricting. We utilize population and growth forecasting in combination with state of the art computerized data analysis to meet a variety of client needs, including long range facility planning and school redistricting.

HMA’s school planning efforts are comprised of three basic components. The first is population and student enrollment projections, central to our forecasting activities. The firm also uses computational techniques such as the cohort survival method, the one widely employed by the State Department of Education for short-term school projections.

Second, HMA applies findings from residential development potential analysis to the school planning process. Build-out and growth forecasts, incorporating existing zoning and environmental constraints, provide essential information for policymaking and are a standard element of our municipal plans of development. Together, development analysis and age cohort forecasting supply a wide range of community data.

Finally, HMA’s expertise with Geographic Information System (GIS) software enables us to conduct comprehensive geodemographic analysis. The extraction and projection of demographic information within custom-made boundary areas, such as school districts, affords quick, cost-effective computational capability. HMA can address-match data points, such as school locations, new births and the existing school population, allowing easy relational analysis among designated variables. Through this system, we can also generate thematic mapping, helpful in community education and participation, and student lists for notifications and mailings.