A package of essential operational tools is how our District views the suite of Baragar applications. We use GeoSchool to do incatchment/out-of-catchment enrollment analyses; to conduct impact analyzes on boundary placement; and to create study areas for evaluating such things as program location. While providing important information regarding our enrollment projections, Demographic Dynamics is much more than a simple projection tool. We use it for various historical analyses and we rely heavily on the reports and graphs it provides. It also serves as our single, most accurate source for birth and population data. ThemeMap has proven invaluable in providing us with socio-economic and risk indicator data that we cannot get from any other source. And now, with ThemeMap, we can import our own external data for comparative purposes. Staff Allocator continues to be the most reliable tool we can find with which to conduct staffing and class size analyses. Collectively these tools have become mission critical applications within our district. Not only have they saved us time and resulted in cost efficiencies, but they continue provide the reliable data we need to make sound decisions.
Leone Sveinson
Director
Planning and BCeSIS
Greater Victoria School District; a client since 1982