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Attendance Area Demographics: Improving Educational Programs
Spring Branch Independent School District, Texas
Attendance Area Community
Attendance areas are defined by school districts as the geographic areas served by individual
schools. These geographic areas largely exist without standardization from district to district
and may be re-defined by the district annually in some cases.
Proximity builds custom school district attendance area, or zone, boundary files
for use in mapping and related geographic information system (GIS) applications.
Attendance area (AA) boundary files play a critically important role in analyzing and understanding
demographic characteristics of students and their living environments.
Proximity uses specialized software to develop the attendance area demographics enabling school leadership and
stakeholders to have their first view of "attendance area community" -- the neighborhood served by the
school.
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Examples of elementary school attendance areas maps and demographics are for
Spring Branch Independent School District, Texas located in the Houston
area are reviewed below.
The 27 elementary school attendance areas are shown in the following thematic map.
Click on this smaller map to view a larger version.
The above map shows, at a glance, patterns of the population distribution by percent Hispanic
that is difficult to assess using tabular data only for a district with 27 elementary attendance areas.
Also, through the use of a GIS, the map may be displayed at different zoom levels and
in combination with other data, such as streets and schools as shown in this map.
As shown in the spreadsheet view below, the same scope of demographic data are developed for
Spring Branch as shown above for East Syracuse-Minoa.
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