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Hoover board hears enrollment study showing lower student yield from new housing
Summary
A consultant told the Hoover City Schools board that while the district is adding roughly 400–500 housing units per year, the number of students generated per unit has fallen from about 0.4 to roughly 0.31, a shift that will shape capacity and planning work this summer and fall.
The Hoover City Schools board of education heard an update on a phase‑one enrollment study that shows new housing is producing fewer students than in previous decades.
Scott Leopold, a consultant with HTM, told the board that the district’s annual housing development rate has been roughly 400–500 units and that “historically we’ve had about 0.4 students per unit, and that’s dropped to about 0.31.” Leopold said the drop indicates people are staying in homes longer and fewer new families with school‑age children are moving into existing stock.
The presentation mapped yields by neighborhood and elementary boundary. Leopold said yields vary: some long‑established…
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