(1) Long-range Enrollment Projection Student enrollment dramatically affects the way that the school district operates. The following is a description of the work involved. The scope and the methods used to make enrollment projections may be revised during negotiation of a contract. (a) Utilizing industry standards, methods described below and all other means necessary, produce a comprehensive demographic study and enrollment projection for the years 2026-2036. (b) Utilize at least the cohort survival method to provide enrollment projections by grade, school and total relying on historical survival ratios to project student growth or decline into the future; i. Factor in kindergarten enrollment and student migration; (c) Utilize the housing unit method to confirm cohort projections (consultants may provide rationale in order to utilize other methods of forecasting);
