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Section 1 -- illustrates use of Proximity information resources to view/analyze schools and school districts.

Section 2 -- illustrates use of Proximity analysis tools to view/analyze county demographic patterns 2000-2020.

Section 3 -- illustrates examples of thematic mapping at the census block level.

Houston Metro refers to the Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land, TX MSA

1. Houston Metro: School District GeoDemographics

•	School districts located primarily in Houston MSA.

•	Districts dominantly intersecting with Houston MSA color coded by name; other districts shown with no fill pattern.

•	CommunityViewer identify tool used to show mini-profile Houston ISD (see location at pointer/hand).

•	Warren Glimpse, founder of Proximity, developed the first national scope school district boundary files working with the U.S. Department of Education and Census Bureau.

•	This view illustrates how school districts can be related to metros/counties/regions using the CommunityViewer software.

•	Glimpse is principal developer of the CommunityViewer GIS software.

•	Poverty rate based on latest Census Bureau estimate for U.S. Department of Education Title I allocations.

•	This view illustrates how demographic patterns can be shown as a thematic map.

•	The legend at the left shows color patterns associated with different levels of poverty incidence for K-12 school age population.

•	This view shows the pattern of grade relevant school age children not enrolled in school by Houston area school district.

•	The label shows the number of grade relevant school age children not enrolled for each district.

•	See more about relevant children not enrolled at http://proximityone.com/hstnrcne1.htm.

•	Thousands of demographic subject matter items are available from Proximity datasets.

•	Data used for this map are from the Census 2000 School District Special Tabulation.

•	Warren Glimpse, founder of Proximity, developed the 1990 Census School District special Tabulation with the U.S. Department of Education and Census Bureau and developed the Census 2000 School District Special Tabulation Website for the U.S. Department of Education.

•	See more about the School District Special Tabulation at http://proximityone.com/c2ksdst.htm.

•	This view shows how school locations and be viewed/analyzed in context of county/region and school districts using GIS tools.

•	Legend at the left shows colors/marker styles associated with different types/levels of schools.

•	This view shows the addition of the Interstate highway layer/shapefile to the previous view.

•	Among other uses, roads/highways provide a way to orient users/analysts with school/school district locations and relationships.

•	The next graphic shows a zoom-in view of the Clear Creek ISD area -- see pointer (hand) in this graphic.

Zoom-in to Clear Creek ISD. See pointer location in previous view for location of this district.

Illustrates knitting together roads, schools and other detailed attributes.

Schools locations depicted by different marker styles (see legend) showing grade group.

Identify tool used to show mini-profile of selected school (see pointer/hand).

•	Use this resource from Proximity -- http://proximityone.com/sddmi.htm#gmaps

•	Clear Creek ISD boundary (from Proximity) superimposed on Google map.

•	See regional location of Clear Creek ISD in previous view.

Illustrates knitting together roads, schools and other detailed attributes.

Schools locations depicted by different marker styles (see legend) showing grade group.

Identify tool used to show mini-profile of selected school (see pointer/hand).

2. Houston Metro Region: County Demographic Composition & Trends

Counties shown with white name labels with population displayed below name.

Places 50,000 population and over (2007) shown as markers with yellow labels.

Patterns of percent students who have an Individual Education Program (IEP) 2006-07 school year

County/Region Demographic Composition/Trend Analysis

Proximity develops annual estimates and projections of subject matter items shown in these tables to 2020 under alternative scenarios. These data may be linked with CV thematic mapping/geospatial analysis and/or exported for use with other software (e.g. Excel) as well as in HTML/RTF formats for publishing in other documents.

3. Houston Metro by Census Block

View developed using the Proximity C2KBLK database -- http://proximityone.com/c2kblk.htm.

Using the CommunityViewer Layer Editor, the above view is developed by using an SQL-like query applied to the layer/shapefile. This setting is shown in the following Layer Editor view (invoked by dbl-clicking the layer name in the legend panel). This can be saved or used dynamically. P001001 is total population, arealand is land area in square meters, the constant adjusts the computed value to square miles. Any of the items in the block database may be accessed/manipulated in this manner. Area colors are set using the Area tab. Given the number of blocks in this view perspective, the block boundary width has been intentionally set to zero, so contiguous same color blocks appear to “run together.”

View shows 5 section interval pattern with black block boundaries for sections 1 and 2.

View developed using the Proximity C2KBLK database -- http://proximityone.com/c2kblk.htm.

Uses different interval settings; boundary not displayed for red due to density

Identify tool used to profile selected block (see pointer)