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The School District GeoDemographic Information System (SDGIS) is an integrated software and database resource developed for use by school districts and education agencies on their computers.

The SDGIS enables you to visually analyze demographic, economic, and education-related data. Explore patterns. Flexibly, interactively develop insights through map views and database queries that can lead to education improvement, more efficient ways of managing operations, and/or gain insights into the school district and school district community infrastructure.

A school district has available many and diverse data sets about students and its community. Usually the data are available in tables, lists, and charts and often not easily used by teams, committees, planners, board of education, administration, other staff and for collaboration with stakeholders. The SDGIS enables you to knit these data together for wide-ranging analyses. By enabling district planners and decision-makers to more effectively identify and understand patterns, the district can better choose steps to improve performance and educational opportunities.

Proximity develops and deploys a ready-to-use SDGIS for individual education agency clients. The SDGIS starts with the CommunityViewer (a Win32 desktop GIS -- http://proximityone.com/cv.htm) and a set of related data files. Designed in a menu-oriented manner, choose the SDGIS structure that best meets your needs. We provide a year-long support program to ensure SDGIS effective use, optionally renewable.

SDGIS is structured as a basic SDGIS with optional add-ons as summarized below.

Basic SDGIS

CommunityViewer Level 1 software; geocoding student address data; ready-to-use project fileset.

One year phone and e-mail support.

Option 1 Adding tax parcels; examining land use patterns; viewing students in content of land use	Option 2 Developing/adding attendance zone boundary shapefiles; adding to base project; enabling further analyses	Option 3 Integrating student demographics including performance data; optionally multiple times per year

Option 4 Census tract shapefiles with integrated demographic for district-wide small area analysis of "school district community."	Option 5 Helping you address virtually any geodemographic analysis need using these resources.	Support & Training Web meetings & on-site face-to-face training and assistance, in addition to e-mail & telephone support.

Version 1.4.4 -- 3/17/2010

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