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Demographer tells Piedmont Board growth could push enrollment to 6,400–7,400 over next decade; boundary changes proposed
Summary
Consultant Hudson Huff of Zonda Demographics told the Piedmont Board of Education that active housing and current yields point to sustained enrollment growth; the board was presented attendance‑boundary scenarios and voted to set 2026–27 intermediate boundaries to address capacity.
A consultant told the Piedmont Board of Education on Monday that recent housing activity and student yields point to sustained enrollment growth that could push the district to roughly 6,400 students by 2029–31 and, under continued build‑out, as many as 7,400 students in about 10 years.
"We anticipate being somewhere in that 6,400 student range" based on current development and yield patterns, Hudson Huff of Zonda Demographics said during the board's presentation of a demographic and housing study. Huff tied forecasts to dozens of active subdivisions in the district and said yields — the number of students generated per home — range commonly around 0.7 in many…
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