Community mobility and public school enrollments

"This paper has two related purposes. The first is to present an argument for the systematic use of public school enrollments data to study family mobility at the community level. The second is to demonstrate the utility of these data for mobility research. This is accomplished with case studies, chosen for distinctive patterns of movement which have produced observed changes in enrollments data, and which correspond to migration patterns of interest to research. The case studies are illustrative of the potential for the use of these data to illuminate patterns of movement that might otherwise go largely undetected."