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Simplify Student Enrollment Forecasts with FLO’s Interactive Dashboards

Understanding student enrollment forecasts can be challenging. FLO is here to simplify the way you analyze and comprehend your school district’s enrollment projections. Our user-friendly interactive dashboards are designed to provide you...

Kent Martin School Districts
Three Ways to Tell Your Student Enrollment Forecasts Are Accurate

Since it’s the new year we’ve got a pop quiz for you: what makes an accurate student enrollment forecast? Enrollment forecasts are a critical tool for all long-term planning efforts. They inform everything from staffing to school...

Kent Martin School Districts
Enrollment Forecasting and Potential Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 disrupted in-person learning at school districts across the country, resulting in large enrollment losses for many districts in 2020–21. Some families moved, while others chose alternatives...

Charles Rynerson School Districts
Oregon’s Top K-12 Demographer Joins the FLO Team

FLO’s school district practice is getting a new infusion of demography expertise in July with the hiring of Charles Rynerson as a lead demographer. Charles comes to FLO after 16 years at the Portland State University Population Research...

Kent Martin School Districts
[UPDATED] The 3 biggest boundary planning project challenges (and how to avoid them)

We’ve seen even the most experienced school district leaders make a few missteps that can derail an attendance area boundary planning project. Working with school districts of all sizes across the country has taught us that if a few key...

Kent Martin School Districts
Recognizing the Service of Our Public Partners

Since 1985, Public Service Recognition Week has been observed during the first week of May. The week is dedicated to recognizing the people who serve our nation as federal, state, county, local, and tribal government employees. Our team has...

Kimi Shigetani Local Government, School Districts, Staff and Culture
What You Need to Know About Student Enrollment Forecasting

Student enrollment forecasts are critically important to all long-term planning efforts. They inform everything from staffing to school capacity planning. But how much do you really know about the forecasts you’re using? Here are the four...

Alex Brasch School Districts
Student Enrollment Forecasting, Explained

Student enrollment is the foundation of school planning, no matter a school district’s size. In this blog post, we draw back the curtain on our enrollment forecasting process, so you can learn what enrollment forecasting is and why...

Tyler Vick School Districts
Enrollment Projections: What Methods Work Best?

Enrollment projections are the building blocks of effective school district planning. Only with detailed and accurate projections are districts able to site schools in the best possible location, future-proof school attendance area boundaries,...

Tyler Vick School Districts
School District Planning Takes Center Stage at FLO’s WASBO Conference Presentation

Join us for a presentation on the fundamentals of successful school district planning activities, focusing on enrollment forecasting, school siting, and boundary reviews. We will cover how to plan for these activities, how to do them, and why...

Tyler Vick School Districts
OSBA Annual Conference Presentation Announcement: Boundary Update Best Practices

Attendance area boundary updates are just like a "giant sudoku puzzle" as one Bend-La Pine Schools boundary update committee member recently put it. I couldn't agree more. Boundary updates are also complex, lengthy, and can be quite...

Tyler Vick School Districts
Boundary Review Success for North Clackamas School District!

Congratulations to North Clackamas School District on the new boundaries! It’s another boundary review success! After many months of hard work on the part of District staff and community members, the North Clackamas School Board approved new...

Tyler Vick School Districts
3 Bond Tips Every School District Can Use Right Now

At some point during the year, most school districts will fall into one of these three areas: Thinking about planning a bond measure Attempting to pass a bond Trying make the most of the bond they just passed No matter which...

Tyler Vick School Districts
Smarter School District Planning: 3 Essential Tools

Are you using the best possible data and analytics for school district planning? Here are three essential tools you can use to make more confident, data-driven planning decisions. 1. Accurate student enrollment forecasting, by...

Tyler Vick School Districts
School Boundary Reviews | Part 3: Integrating Technological Tools

Welcome to the third and final part of our series on updating school attendance boundaries. As we covered in posts one and two, a successful boundary update is both data-driven and consensus-based. In other words, it’s made up of accurate...

Alex Brasch School Districts
School Boundary Reviews | Part 2: Building Community Consensus

Welcome to part two of our three-part series on school attendance area boundary reviews, where we’re taking a look at how school districts can successfully update boundaries with a consensus-based and data-driven approach. If you haven’t...

Tyler Vick School Districts
School Boundary Reviews | Part 1: Student Enrollment Forecasting (It’s More Than A Headcount!)

School may be out for the summer, but for district leaders, the work continues. Many superintendents, assistant superintendents, and business managers will spend the summer break planning for future enrollment growth, or developing strategies...

Tyler Vick School Districts
Taking a Closer Look at Student Enrollment Forecasting

The FLO team is attending the Washington Association of School Business Officials' Annual Conference this week, where we've been hearing from school districts across the state about their need for more in-depth and easy-to-access student...

Kent Martin School Districts
Managing School District Growth: The Tools You Need

The race is on to manage growth for many school districts, as the populations of cities and towns across the Northwest continue to rise. In just the past 30 days, more than 10 school districts in Oregon and Washington have been featured in...

Tyler Vick School Districts
New Boundaries Approved for Washougal School District

Congratulations to Washougal School District! The School Board unanimously voted to approve new elementary and middle school boundaries, after a six-week boundary review process lead by the FLO team. We worked closely with district...

Alex Brasch School Districts
Fall School District Conferences

Last week the FLO team attended the Oregon School Boards Association Conference in Portland and this week we'll be heading to the Washington State School Directors' Association Conference in Spokane. We're using these opportunities to talk...

Tyler Vick School Districts
Boundary Review Update: New Boundary Approval for Central Valley School District

We recently wrapped up the boundary review process for Central Valley School District and are happy to announce the approval of 13 new elementary school boundaries. This approval is the result of eight weeks of facilitated committee meetings,...

Tyler Vick School Districts
WASBO Conference 2016

Today we're exhibiting at the Washington Association of School Business Officials (WASBO) Conference in Tacoma. Stop by booth 25 in the main exhibit hall and talk to us about our geographic approach to student enrollment forecasting and...

Tyler Vick School Districts
Comprehensive Boundary Review: Central Valley School District

For the past two months, our team has been engaged with Central Valley School District administration, parents, and community members to conduct a comprehensive boundary review of elementary and a subset of middle school attendance areas. To...

Tyler Vick School Districts
Answering Critical Questions Using Student Enrollment Forecasts

We've been assisting school districts by preparing student enrollment forecasts in an effort to help them successfully plan for the future. Our unique approach goes beyond traditional enrollment forecasting by providing insight into the...

Tyler Vick School Districts
Supporting the Boundary Review Process for Tacoma Public Schools

We are excited to be supporting Tacoma Public School's boundary review process by providing community engagement maps and a custom web mapping application to support on-the-fly scenario modeling during boundary review committee...

Tyler Vick Mobile, desktop, and server applications, School Districts, Spatial Analysis
Washington School Directors’ Conference – WSSDA 2015

The Washington State School Directors’ Association (WSSDA) annual conference is right around the corner. The annual event is the largest gathering of education policymakers in the state of Washington and a place where school directors and...

Tyler Vick Mobile, desktop, and server applications, School Districts, Spatial Analysis
May 8th Workshop at Washington School Districts Conference

The demographics of a school district drive facility needs. Its student population, composition, and distribution are tied to the larger geography in which the District is located. As these factors shift, a District must respond to both...

Tyler Vick Asset Management, GIS Support and Development, School Districts, Spatial Analysis
FLO Featured in the Daily Journal of Commerce

We’re excited to be featured in a recent article by the Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce. The article touches on some of our latest work with school districts, utilities, and area businesses. Check it out...

Tyler Vick Asset Management, Government, School Districts, Spatial Analysis, Utilities
Land Use Studies for School Districts

We recently completed a land use analysis for Bellingham Public Schools in Washington in order to assess its 10-year student enrollment projections within the geographical context of the District’s future land use. The goal of the land use...

Tyler Vick School Districts, Spatial Analysis