RE: School District Issues & Discussion

["Ron Force" <rforce@moscow.com>]

If you subtract the numbers for "18 years and over" from the total Moscow
population, then subtract "Under 5 years", you get 2381.  The problem is the
boundaries of the Moscow School district aren't congruent with the
boundaries of the city--they're larger. To get the census numbers for the
MSD, you'd have to compile it beased on county census tracts, and even then,
I'm not sure the boundaries would match exactly.

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Ron Force	      	  rforce@moscow.com
Moscow Idaho USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mushroom [mailto:mushroom@moscow.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:05 PM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: School District Issues & Discussion
>
>
> 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
>