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Strategic Decision Support for School Districts
In today’s dynamic environment of growing ethnic diversity, changing family structures, declining enrollment and/or rapid housing development, you need quick and easy access to the data that will help you intelligently plan your school district’s future. That’s where DecisionInsite (DI) comes in!
The DI Difference
Recognizing the extreme value that dynamic reporting presents to school districts, Impact Demographics has formed an exclusive partnership with DecisionInsites. With DecisionInsite's map-driven, web-based product, called The DI System, you’ll get quick and easy access to your customized enrollment forecasts and community demographics. We’ve put the effortless power of point and click tools, expert enrollment forecasting and the ability to create professional presentations into the hands of your district staff members who are responsible for making and communicating data-driven decisions.
The Product
The Impact Demographics' report, powered by the DI System, offers the following:
- 10 Year Enrollment Projections
Our experts generate two enrollment projections each year based on key factors that are pertinent to your district. One is suitable for budget planning and staffing, and the other for facilities planning. We also prepare an executive summary of the results. These projections are incorporated into The DI System so you have online access at all times.
- Access to The DI System
Our unique, web-based application allows you to:
• Quickly access the demographic data you need, including enrollment projections
• View information in attractively formatted charts, graphs or interactive maps
• Analyze numbers and multiple scenarios with a variety of easy online tools
The DI System includes several useful features, such as:
Query Tools — No more waiting for your overworked IT staff to answer your queries. These powerful tools allow you to zoom in and out on areas of interest and see how changes in one area affect others. You can:
- Control your own map layers — get the context of geographic surroundings such as streets, parks, airports, water features, civic boundaries, railroads and other school district’s boundaries.
- Draw your own geographic area — get detailed demographic information/enrollment projections by drawing your own geographic area on top of a map layer
- Conduct your own "What/If" Analyses — explore a number of scenarios you may encounter in the future, along with the impacts of a virtually unlimited range of possible solutions such as:
- Boundary configuration planning
- Redistricting
- School Closure Analysis
Maps and Reports — Within seconds, you can generate vivid, professional-looking graphical representations of data. Then, simply click the mouse to paste them into virtually any document, spreadsheet or PowerPoint slide.
Community and Student Demographic Database — Get secure online access to numerical data, charts and graphs with regard to virtually any community or school demographic characteristic.
School Locator — Provides a way for parents to look up assigned neighborhood schools from a link on your website.
The following consulting services are available for an additional cost:
- Residential Development Research: Discover and document the proposed residential development plans that fall within your district boundary.
- Boundary Reconfiguration and Analysis: Get help developing viable boundary change alternatives and assessing their impact.
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