This section provides access to the paper presented by Warren Glimpse on July 23, 2001, at the American Association of School Administrators Suburban Schools Leadership Conference and related materials.

Census 2000 Geodemographic Information Resources and School System Leadership. This paper (in PDF format) describes the Census 2000 demographic and geographic data resources in the context of usage for school system leadership applications. The paper also presented a suggested definition for "suburban school districts," in a manner that provides geographic concordance with other Census 2000 geographic area definitions. The paper also reviews use of geodemographic data in the broader context school leadership data driven decisionmaking.

School System Leadership and Census 2000 Geodemographic Information Resources. This Powerpoint slide show conveys key points described in more detail in the above paper. Download and unzip this 4 MB zip file to the folder C:\SLC. Then run the program pngsetup.exe in that folder and expand the self-contained slide show in the folder C:\SLC\PPT.

Related Resources. The following list provides a summary of related school system leadership and data driven decisionmaking resources available elsewhere on this Website.

Census 2000 School District Demographics -- access data for your district

Census 2000 School District Map Files -- access map files to use with your GIS/mapping software.

Census 2000 Data Resources -- access this Webpage to learn more about Census 2000 data access and use.

School District Special Tabulation -- the only source of children's demographics
- 1990 Census
- Census 2000 (see left column index)

Post Census School District Demographic Estimates -- learn more about programs to develop specialized Census 2000 demographic updates.

ProximityOne Software Suite -- put these software to work to integrate your data with other data for decisionmaking applications.