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Board authorizes new forecasting method for school enrollment; Carolina Demography to provide annual projections
Summary
The board approved switching to a Carolina Demography forecasting methodology for Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools to improve enrollment projections by accounting for births, migration, development and charter/private-school changes.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners authorized staff to use a new student-enrollment forecasting methodology produced by Carolina Demography to support school-capacity planning for Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
Kirk (staff) summarized weaknesses in the county—s prior projection approach, which relied principally on trend-based analysis and did not explicitly incorporate the impacts of new development, charter and private-school market-share changes, COVID-19 effects or changing birth trends. The board previously requested competitive proposals and heard presentations by two firms; the SApFOTEC (school adequate public…
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