Re: School District Issues & Discussion

[Mushroom <mushroom@moscow.com>]

Dale Courtney wrote:
> 
> 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.

Could some of those missing children be in their mother's or
father's arms? Or a playpen? "Living at home" wouldn't seem
to imply "and of school age."

Don Coombs