Also called: School District Demographer, Student Enrollment Planner
Predicts how many students each school will have in five or ten years, using births, new housing and moving patterns, so districts can build or close schools.
You map every new subdivision planned in the district, compare kindergarten counts with local births five years earlier, and run a model of how many kids each school will have. Then you present to the school board, which uses your numbers to decide whether to build a new school or redraw attendance zones.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Master's degree, about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's or master's in geography, demography, urban planning or statistics.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Geography, Demography, Urban Planning, Statistics.
Growing about average. Steady at large districts and consulting firms.
Medium risk for 10 years. Forecast models and mapping are increasingly automated; local knowledge and explaining tough changes to parents stay human.
Classes: AP Human Geography, AP Statistics, Computer science.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-3099.
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