04:50 PM

Lightning Talk: Using Spatial Data to Inform Public School System Policy

This talk will review the approach and outcomes of two data-driven pilot programs that WXY architecture + urban design developed as a consultant for the New York City Department of Education and the City of New Rochelle. The first project leverages a unique, proprietary NYCDOE dataset to interrogate the factors that drive racial and socio-economic segregation in NYC public schools as students matriculate from the elementary to middle school grade levels. The second project proposes a novel method for quantifying the impacts of new residential development on public school infrastructure in New Rochelle. In both cases, our team analyzed and visualized geospatial data that highlight the dynamics of school feeding patterns and school placement trends/bias, which can inform new policies to promote school diversity and manage development-induced enrollment growth.