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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Team

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Team

GIS Analyst
Rakesh Vaddepally
(407) 518-2982
Internal Extension 66341
Rakesh.Vaddepally@osceolaschools.net

 

Planning Technician – GIS
Robert Newton
(407) 750-9446
Internal Extension 66333
Robert.Newton@osceolaschools.net

Planning Services coordinates the School District of Osceola County’s GIS program and is responsible for further development and maintenance of the District’s geographic data. Over several years, Planning Services has used GIS in support of operations and year-round tasks such as long-term planning, resident enrollment projections, residential development monitoring, boundary mapping, rezoning planning, and demographic research.
 

Below are the services the GIS Team provides to the district and below that are links to service pages, documents, maps, and data that our team is responsible for.
 

Do you have any questions or need assistance? Call us at (407) 483-3671 and ask to speak with the GIS Team. 

  • The most important and least visible task is maintaining location-specific data. Some examples of location-specific data tracked and maintained include: streets, addresses, parcels, and residential development projects. Various other data is maintained which influences settlement patterns and/or is required for reporting purposes. These various datasets are used in coordination with historical student data to develop student enrollment projections. 

  • Student enrollments changed based on natural growth (births) or changing settlement patterns (new development, aging development). The District projection methodology matriculates students through the grade levels using a standard cohort projection from historical student populations. This projection is modified by such demographic factors as birth rates by zip code, student mobility (how often students change addresses), and housing type. Finally, planned residential development is accounted for to project growth based on district in-migration. With this methodology the department is able to: 

    • Identify and plan for future school capacity requirements;
    • Identify area for potential future school sites to accommodate future growth;
    • Create 1-10 year projection data in different configurations such as zones, grades, and geograpic areas.

  • Rezoning plan models use the student projections and localized study areas to analyze potential effects of population growth relative to the capacities of individual schools. This insight grants us the ability to better manage our existing facilities by identifying high growth areas to create strategies to remediate a capacity issue. Rezoning is not the only solution to deal with capacity issues but it is an effective tool to prevent major capital improvement expenditures.  

  • The GIS Team supports year-round district operations such as:

    • Residential Development Tracking
    • Capital Improvement Plan Developments
    • School Capacity Report and Development Tracking
    • Short-Term Residential Tracking
    • Mapping Requests
    • Demographic Research
    • Managing Educational Impact Fee Exemption Applications
    • FOCUS Address Catalog Updates
    • School Zoning Verifications
    • Student Address Verification (Invalid Address Reporting)
    • Student Address Geocoding
    • Charter School Demographics

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Disclaimer
All data, information, and maps are provided “as is” without any warranty or representation of accuracy, timeliness, or completeness. The School District of Osceola County, Florida (the “School District”) cannot accept any responsibility for errors, omissions, or positional accuracy. The School District specifically disclaims any warranty, either express or implied, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The burden of determining accuracy, timeliness, merchantability, and fitness for a particular use rests solely on the requestor, and the requestor assumes all risk as to quality and performance. In no event will the School District or its staff be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or other damages, including, without limitation, loss of profit, arising out of the use of the data, information, and maps even if the School District has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The requestor acknowledges and accepts the limitations of the data, information, and maps, including, without limitation, the fact that the data, information, and maps are dynamic and are in a constant state of maintenance, correction, and update.