Rocky Gardiner, director of school district consulting for Zonda Demographics, provided AISD with an enrollment projection forecast as well as housing updates at the board’s April 12 meeting.
“This really does help us with our planning for future student enrollment, our planning for future bond projects [and] our planning overall for enrollment at our schools,” AISD Superintendent Carol Nelson said.
AISD is projected to have an enrollment number of 29,271 students for 2022-23 school year, a 3.8% growth from its 2021-22 enrollment of 28,192, Gardiner said.
The projected enrollment number for the 2022-23 school year can be broken down into 120 early enrollees; 2,680 students in prekindergarten and kindergarten; 10,501 in grades 1-5; 6,704 students in grades 6-8; and 9,266 students in grade 9-12, according to Gardiner’s presentation.
Additionally, there were 2,013 new homes added within AISD’s boundary in 2021—552 of which came in the final quarter of the year, Gardiner said. The average cost is $350,823 for new houses within the district’s boundaries and $314,782 for existing houses, according to the report. A new report with updated figures for the first quarter of 2022 is expected to be presented in May, Gardiner said.
