Demographics Services
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We focus on the success of your campus
School Providers’ number one priority is providing a high-quality education to their students. Many situations can cause leaders to be distracted from this goal, especially when it comes to recruitment and site evaluation. Our services make it possible to offload those responsibilities and focus on the success of your campus.
HCG can provide your school with precise, accurate data that will allow you make the best decision on the future of your school. We offer an array of demographic services that can be customized to your individual needs, coupled with over two decades of education focused real estate experience giving HCG a unique advantage over our competitors.
Demographic Services
Web Mapping
HCG constructs an interactive database for your local market. Our webmapping tool combines data from all elements of charter school operations; blending our precise demographic heat maps with real estate market data, local governing jurisdictions, transit networks, and educational resources.
Our versatile platform allows for easy access on phones, tablets or laptops, allowing you to use your database whether you are on the road or in the office.
The personal engagement we have with our clients allows us to provide consistent updates as well as add custom data, ensuring your tool stays up-to-date and at all times.
Demographic Services
Enrollment Studies
- Enrollment challenges come in all shapes and sizes. Whether your school is opening a new location, filling and maintaining a current location, relocating, or trying to decide to how to coordinate expansion within your current market area, InSite EFS has the experience to assist in the process.
- We’ll overlay your enrollment, waitlist, and application data with our demographics to help you understand and adapt to population shifts, allowing you to hit your enrollment targets
Scatter-Mapping
Geocode student addresses and overlay them with our demographic heat maps for a unique, in-depth analysis. We can also map out your historical enrollment over the years to discover and evaluate trends.
Relocation
Moving a campus creates a unique scenario that requires finesse coupled with the opportunity for prolonged growth. We will help you look at the pros and cons that allow you to best retain your current families while spreading your brand to new ones.
Multiple Facilities
Scaling up your schools network is an exciting prospect. Make sure you understand how one campus interacts with its neighboring campuses to protect the stability of your entire system.
Campus Bussing
HCG researches routes and/or pick-up locations to help determine logistics and efficiency.
Demographic Services
Competition/
Market Share
- Understanding the demographics of an area is one thing, but evaluating the schools around you is just as important to ensuring the success of your campus. Learning which schools are direct competition and which ones are not, as well as how the location of your site interacts with the local school district and its attendance zones are all valuable bits of knowledge.
- We have access to charter, district, and private school locations across the country, updated annually with the most recent data. See who is closest to your current or new campus and what district it resides in.
Charter Schools
We can map out charter school locations and filter based on grade range, educational model, enrollment size, or rating.
Private Schools
Our private school database is complete with enrollment data, grade ranges, and tuition prices.
District Schools
See the locations of all district schools in an area along with their enrollment, ratings, and FRL percentages.
Boundaries & Attendance Zones
We can map out school district boundaries as well as attendance zones for high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools.
Demographic Services
GIS Services
- The world of digital mapping is constantly changing and filled with infinite possibilities. InSite EFS has a dedicated GIS Team that’s sole responsibility is to help your school realize those opportunities and visualize your data in ways that can have a profound impact for your audience.
- Our trained GIS professionals can assist you with investigating, analyzing, and evaluting all types of geospatial data in a way that is easy to interpret. Use our maps for board meetings, community outreach, and department of education reports.
Drivetimes
We offer fully customizable drivetime mapping both towards and away from your site, for any hour of any day. HCG can also combine multiple drivetimes to show your entire network's coverage for a particular market.
Heat Mapping
Using our proprietary methods in conjunction with our ESRI suite of products, HCG EFS has the ability to map a full suite of demographic variables with quarter-mile precision for any city within the United States.
Elevation & Topo
On the real estate side of our portfolio, we can assist with accurate elevation and topographic mapping of prospective properties as well as visualizing floodplain and wetlands zones that can impact the development of your property.
Zoning
Understanding the zoning of a property is critical for putting together a reasonable timeline for the acquisition and construction of a site. HCG has access to zoning data specifically coded for school use across the country.
New Home Construction
Clients have a view into the home construction landscape. Updated throughout the year, we are able to show where the most current developments are located, along with the number and price of the homes being built.
Suitability Analysis
Projecting and sustaining the success of a school is at the core of HCG's mission. With that in mind, we have developed a suitability analysis that combines multiple demographic data sets into a single layer in order to help you quickly pinpoint the most (and least) favorable areas within a market.
