Our interest and experience in school district planning is based on our belief that a healthy school system is critical to both educating our youth and sustaining a vital community.

We draw on our unique blend of land use, economic and housing development, planning, forecasting, and public participation experience to assist a multitude of Wisconsin school districts in planning for their futures.  Our school district planning services and the districts we have served include:

• Strategic planning and community engagement initiatives. 
• Long-range facility master plans, based on a unique understanding of both community growth and school district trends and opportunities.
• Guiding selection of future school sites based on community planning, site analysis, and real estate experience. 
• Helping districts adjust attendance area boundaries and reorganize bussing routes. 
• Conducting housing development, demographic, and statistical analysis to help districts understand and predict change. 
• Projecting future student enrollment by analyzing housing growth and demographic change, understanding municipal plans, and interacting with the board, staff, and developers. 

We are skilled in a variety of mapping and analysis techniques and tools in order to:

• Sub-divide school districts into smaller neighborhoods—based on areas of common characteristics—to allow for a finer level of analysis and options.
• Illustrate enrollment projections by neighborhood and attendance area, visually sharing that information and allowing clear analysis of different school facility options.
• Facilitate committee and public meetings through with mapping, allowing review of the impacts of different policy choices on the district.
• Evaluate potential school sites using a wide range of social and physical characteristics (e.g., site size, development potential, neighborhood characteristics, access).

While we understand school facility and related programming needs, our practice does not design or build school facilities.  We, therefore, have no particular interest in whether or when new school facilities are built.  This assures our objectivity, and helps avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest that might otherwise impair successful completion of school facility planning projects.

Our school district clients represent a variety of communities around Wisconsin. We have worked with: West De Pere, Verona, Waunakee, Sun Prairie, DeForest, Middleton-Cross Plains, Waukesha, Oconomowoc, Oregon, Lake Mills, Wrightstown, Winneconne, Hortonville, Muskego-Norway, Mequon-Thiensville, Cedarburg, St. Francis, Mayville, River Valley, Kaukauna, Sauk Prairie, Pewaukee, West Allis-West Milwaukee, and Burlington.