RE: School District Issues & Discussion

["Dale Courtney" <dmcourtn@moscow.com>]

Ron wrote: 
> I believe what the table says is that 20.3% of the total 
> county population is under 18. No trend is given for that statistic.

The 14.1% I quoted is the "Population, percent change, 1990 to 2000".

You have to go to the PDF file for the city's census data:
http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/demographic_profile/Idaho/2k
h16.pdf

Check out "Householders with Own Child under 18". There are 3,316. If we
include the "other relatives under 18 (64), that leaves 3,380 children
under 18 who live at home (that should remove the vast majority of U of
I 17 year-olds). 

With MSD having 2,358 students, that leaves 30.2% of the Moscow children
elsewhere. I rounded down to 25% to be conservative.

BTW, for those of you who enjoy trend analysis -- check out:
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsTable?_lang=en&_vt_name=D
EC_1990_STF3_DP2&_geo_id=05000US16057

In 1990, only 9.5% of our children were in private schools (I'm assuming
that includes homeschoolers).  It will be interesting to see what this
data is when the new figures are released (still unscheduled). 

I think Tim Kinkeade's original question is right on the money: where
have all our children gone?! 

Dale