{"id":5808,"date":"2019-02-04T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2019-02-01T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T21:59:09","slug":"schools-and-growth-part-two-student-generation-rates-and-children-who-live-in-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2019\/02\/schools-and-growth-part-two-student-generation-rates-and-children-who-live-in-apartments\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools and Growth, Part Two: Student Generation Rates and Children Who Live in Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5815\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rock-creek-terrace-apartments-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"Rock Creen Terrace Apartments high rise building\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rock-creek-terrace-apartments-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rock-creek-terrace-apartments.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I often hear claims that the school impact tax rates charged to developers are based on faulty assumptions about the number of children who live in new housing units. While no one can predict exactly how many kids will live in a specific dwelling in the future, the methodology used to produce the generation rates used in school impact tax calculations is far more sophisticated and comprehensive than most people realize.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Every other year, Montgomery County\nPublic Schools (MCPS) provides the Planning Department with a dataset that\nincludes the address and grade of every MCPS student (with all other\nidentifying information scrubbed from the dataset). The Planning Department\nthen cross-references this information with parcel data that identifies the\ntype of housing at the relevant address (single-family home, townhouse,\nhigh-rise multifamily, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using this information, the\nPlanning Department calculates how many elementary, middle and high school\nstudents are generated by different types of housing across different parts of\nthe county. When the rates were last calculated using 2016 enrollment data, housing\ntype information was matched to the addresses of 99.1 percent of the more than\n159,000 MCPS students. This means that the resulting generation rates are based\non a nearly-complete picture of exactly how many kids live in each category of\nhousing across the entire county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you\u2019d imagine, generation rates vary by housing type:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-X6HNp\" src=\"\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/X6HNp\/2\/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" height=\"289\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.getElementById(\"datawrapper-chart-\"+t);e&&(e.style.height=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\")}})}();<\/script>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Attached single-family housing, commonly referred to as townhomes, generates the most students per unit \u2013 more than single-family detached houses. Mid-rise multifamily buildings tend to be relatively older stock with a relatively larger proportion of multi-bedroom units, but they still have a smaller number of schoolchildren per unit than single-family dwellings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of students in high-rise\napartments and condominiums, however, is even lower. For every 10 residential\nunits in a high-rise building, only 1.4 students are enrolled in our public\nschools. Each of these units gets charged $6,791 in school impact taxes. This\namount is less than one-third the rate charged for townhouses and single-family\ndetached houses, but in line with the number of schoolchildren living in\nhigh-rise buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my next post, I\u2019ll discuss\nenrollment projections and the relationship between school overcrowding and\ndevelopment.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">I often hear claims that the school impact tax rates charged to developers are based on faulty assumptions about the number of children who live in new housing units. While no one can predict exactly how many kids will live in a specific dwelling in the future, the methodology used to produce the generation rates used in school impact tax calculations is far more sophisticated and comprehensive than most people realize.<\/p>\n<p>Every other year, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) provides the Planning Department with a dataset that includes the address and grade of every MCPS student (with all other identifying information scrubbed from the dataset). The Planning Department then cross-references this information with parcel data that identifies the type &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2019\/02\/schools-and-growth-part-two-student-generation-rates-and-children-who-live-in-apartments\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}