data on kids who go to in-bound school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know where you would get this data. The only group counting kids in a neighborhood is the Census, and that data becomes dated pretty quickly in a place like DC. There is the American Community Survey, which updates Census data using sampling, but they only go down to the country level.

Take for instance a family that moved into DC in 2012. Suppose they live here until 2016, and send two kids to St. Patrick's, a private school. Their kids don't really get compiled anywhere official. Sure they are dependents on their parents' DC tax return, but no one is adding all of those kids up and cross referencing them with school enrollment data.

DCPS has demographers. I don't know what they do but they have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know where you would get this data. The only group counting kids in a neighborhood is the Census, and that data becomes dated pretty quickly in a place like DC. There is the American Community Survey, which updates Census data using sampling, but they only go down to the country level.

Take for instance a family that moved into DC in 2012. Suppose they live here until 2016, and send two kids to St. Patrick's, a private school. Their kids don't really get compiled anywhere official. Sure they are dependents on their parents' DC tax return, but no one is adding all of those kids up and cross referencing them with school enrollment data.

DCPS has demographers. I don't know what they do but they have them.

So where would they find records of the private school kids to count them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know where you would get this data. The only group counting kids in a neighborhood is the Census, and that data becomes dated pretty quickly in a place like DC. There is the American Community Survey, which updates Census data using sampling, but they only go down to the country level.

Take for instance a family that moved into DC in 2012. Suppose they live here until 2016, and send two kids to St. Patrick's, a private school. Their kids don't really get compiled anywhere official. Sure they are dependents on their parents' DC tax return, but no one is adding all of those kids up and cross referencing them with school enrollment data.

DCPS has demographers. I don't know what they do but they have them.

So where would they find records of the private school kids to count them?

Maybe the schools report? There are truancy laws, OSSE has an obligation to insure that every kid is educated. If you homeschool you have to register with OSSE. So they have to be trying to count all the kids.

The private services like PeopleFinder are pretty comprehensive these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know where you would get this data. The only group counting kids in a neighborhood is the Census, and that data becomes dated pretty quickly in a place like DC. There is the American Community Survey, which updates Census data using sampling, but they only go down to the country level.

Take for instance a family that moved into DC in 2012. Suppose they live here until 2016, and send two kids to St. Patrick's, a private school. Their kids don't really get compiled anywhere official. Sure they are dependents on their parents' DC tax return, but no one is adding all of those kids up and cross referencing them with school enrollment data.

DCPS has demographers. I don't know what they do but they have them.

So where would they find records of the private school kids to count them?

Shouldn't parents have to submit proof of enrollment since children are legally required to be in school? You have to submit a letter of intent to homeschool; shouldn't there be something similar for private school?