Discusses a method of calculating, for a school or small area (neighborhood or district), enrollment estimates on a ratio of pupil from housing. (Author/IRT)

Reviews procedures used to compute participation rates, analyze some problems arising during these computations, and discuss their application to two educational planning products--recruitment and enrollment projections, particularly as they are used in the planning of higher education. (Author)

Discusses how to check the accuracy of different enrollment projection methods for different educational systems. (Author)

Reports a solution to the problem of providing annual grade enrollment projections by use of an exponential smoothing model. (Author)

This component of the project attempts to facilitate planning by furnishing models that manage cumbersome and complex data, supply an objectivity that identifies all relationships between elements of the model, and provide a quantitative model allowing for various forecasting techniques that describe the long-range impact of decisions. (Author/IRT)

Presents a simulation model that might prove to be a powerful predictor of future enrollment for post-secondary study in Manitoba. This simulation involves representing the abrupt changes in individual and group behavior resulting from crosspressures, conflicting circumstances, and their related socio-economic conditions. (Author/WM)

With declining enrollments and a tight financial situation, North York borough must now increase its planning. (WM)

Discusses the Simu School component in Santa Clara County, California, which focuses on communities in areas that are changing from rural to urban characteristics and on declining enrollments. (Author/IRT)

In order to obtain Ministry of Education funding and approval for new projects, Toronto planners and boards must co-operate and demonstrate that the requirements of the "Co-operative Study" form have been met. (Author/WM)

This paper reports work that studied past and future demographic trends and their impact on education in Florida, and presents a model for studying variables affecting enrollment. Numerous tables and graphs are included. (Author/IRT)

The Los Angeles Unified School District contracted with GeoBased Systems to produce an enrollment projection model based on a set of assumptions regarding fertility, mortality, and migration for each of four ethnic groups. This article discusses the data, methodology, and results used by individual schools to project student numbers. (MLH)