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This is a guide to help you copy the Market View presentation template and then customize it for your school and data.
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Look below the query paragraph in the blue header, and you'll see the Overview tab highlighted.
The Overview tab has three topics: Population Data, Income Data, and Diversity Data.
If you look to the right side of the page, you'll see a multicolored map. This map is called a choropleth (core-o-pleth).
A choropleth map is a type of statistical thematic map that uses intensity of color to correspond with an aggregate summary of a geographic characteristic within spatial enumeration units.
In our case, the choropleth represents total school-age population. Each shape outlined in gray is a ZIP code. The darkest blue shapes are ZIPs with the most children, and the light green ZIPs have the fewest children.
You'll see header text above the map. That's the title of the map, and also displays the data reflected in the map and the charts below. For example, "Total School-Age Population by ZIP Code within a 30-Minute drive of Washington, DC 20036-3425".
You'll also see a "Download" button with icon. Clicking this button will download the map exactly as shown. Before downloading, make sure to adjust your settings and parameters so that the map will show the data you need. Alternatively, you can screenshot the map if you like that better.
On the map, there is shape with a double blue line. This is called an isochrone (ice-oh-crone).
An isochrone map is a map that depicts the a time parameter. Market View's isochrones portray an area accessible from a point within a certain time threshold.
By our estimates, anyone living within the area bounded by the double blue lines can commute to your school within the travel time you specified. You'll see these isochrones throughout the various pages of Market View.
At the top of the map, there is a dropdown selector. The default selection is "Total School-Age Population". Market View defines School-Age Population as 0-18. Click that menu, and you'll see other options. Selecting a different option will cause the map colors to change, reflecting the new values you've chosen.
If you hover your mouse over a ZIP on the map, you'll see a small white box appear in the upper right corner of the map. In the screenshot below, the user is hovering over Riverdale and so the box in the upper right shows the value Riverdale has for the selected value. In this case, "Enrolled PK-12 Private Schools".
In the box in the upper right, "20737" is the ZIP Code, "Riverdale" is the locality name, and "619" is the number of children in that ZIP enrolled in PK-12 Private Schools.
Lastly, there is a gradated color scale below the map on the right. This scale shows the colors that reflect the minimum and maximum values, and their representative colors.
Let's scroll down past the map.
You'll see a table titled Population Data. This tabular layout is probably familiar to you. Feel free to paste it into your spreadsheet editor of choice. From there you can make any custom charts or graphs you need, beyond the graphics available in Market View.
All tabular data in Market View is copy and pastable into a spreadsheet.
Read more about how and where we get our data.
At the bottom of the page, you'll find suggestions for next steps. These suggestions are intended to help you make the most of Market View, on your own or as discussion questions with your team.
The Income Data subtab empowers you to analyze median income in your area.
You'll notice the title for the map is "Family Median Income by ZIP Code within a XX-Minute drive of YY Location".
Let's break this down!
Family is a census designated descriptor. It is distinct from household. Two unmarried adults are a household. Two married adults are a family. A single adult with a biological child is a family. The census considers people living together with a blood or marriage bond a family. Otherwise, it's a household. Two unmarried adults are a household until they have a child, and then they are considered a family.
You'll notice we use both designations in different places in Market View. Family income cuts off at $500,000, after that it is grouped into "$500k and over". Household income has granularity up to $750,000, after that it is grouped into "$750k and over".
Unless otherwise specified, "Family" in Market View also means "Families with children". Children are people aged 0-18.
The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two equal groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount. It may differ from the mean (or average) income.
The Diversity Data subtab offers an overview of the racial and ethnic breakdown within the selected rive-time parameter, set above.
Remember, if you are ever unsure about the information being displayed, the titles are a great place to start. Here, you'll see that the title of the map is "Total Population by ZIP Code within a XX minute drive of YY location."
This tab makes use of all of the functionality previously discussed in this guide- change the variable displayed in the choropleth map to view densities of a specific group, download the map, and view tabular data with five-year projections below.
Wait! What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
The Census considers race and ethnicity to be distinct concepts.
Race refers to the way a person self identifies with social group(s). The Census offers White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, or some other race groupings. Participants can also report multiple races.
Ethnicity focuses on whether a person is of Hispanic origin or not.
How to add data to Market View
There are two types of data you can add to Market View, student and miscellaneous.
There are two types of data you can add to Market View, student and miscellaneous. There are two ways to upload data, by spreadsheet and by admission data sync.
Student data can be either applicants or enrolled students. You can include up to five data points about each student.
First name
Last name
Grade
ID
Address
You can upload student data via spreadsheet, Blackbaud data sync, or Veracross data sync.
If you don't want to include any of the above fields, due to privacy concerns or other reasons, feel free to omit them. The importer will work with all columns blank except for address. If you don't want to add addresses either, you can pare it down to just ZIP codes.
Miscellaneous data can be teacher addresses, bus stops, feeder schools, any data source that you find helpful. You can only upload addresses for this type of data.
If you are having trouble uploading your files, make sure to check the following requirements.
If you follow these steps and are still having trouble, please reach out!
Understanding Blackbaud applicant data
In Blackbaud, each student has a status. Blackbaud data doesn't have a definitive marker for "applicant", applicants fall under "inquiries" in the system.
In order to sync your applicants from Blackbaud, Market View looks for statuses that have “applicant” in the name, plus any statuses that could have an applicant status as a parent status.
This usually excludes the inquiry statuses, since students usually can’t progress from “applicant” status to “inquiry”, but it depends on how a school sets up their statuses.
If you are missing students from your "applicants" list in Market View, change their status or parent status to include the word "applicant". Then refresh your data and you should see them included.
If you have questions about your applicant data, please get in touch.
Below the query paragraph in the left side navigation, check out the Affordability tab next.
The Affordability tab offers Summary, Median, High Income, Distribution, and Race/Ethnicity, and Change in Average sub tabs.
In the Summary tab, you'll have the opportunity to set query parameters- select a drive time in ten-minute increments up to an hour, and enter a tuition level.
You'll notice the default tuition setting is $27,950- this is the NAIS median tuition across all member schools. Update this parameter by typing your school's tuition level. If your school uses stepped-tuition, try viewing each different level or your school's average tuition with a few keystrokes.
In the Summary tab see an insight paragraph outlining ability to pay within the selected drive time at the designated tuition level.
Ability to pay is one lens through which school leaders can assess their market.
You'll see the income Market View estimates a family will need to earn to afford the entered tuition level at full-freight. The tool aggregates and crunches data from hundreds of thousands of financial aid applications submitted through the SSS application to make this determination. Based on the incomes reported by the Census in your area, Market View also provides an estimate of the proportion of households in your area earning this much within your designated drive time.
A good rule of thumb is that more than 15% of your market should be earning as much to avoid affordability strain in your admissions funnel.
"Right fit" families exist in all income bands. Market View offers a breakdown of the income needed to afford a spectrum of tuition contributions - from partial pay to full pay, as well as estimates about how much of the market earns each income level, in the breakdown below.
As always, this data can be copy & pasted into any spreadsheet editor, or downloaded via csv.
Below, you'll see the Financial Gap and Expected Household Contribution by Income Band.
This chart illustrates how much a families earning income in bands from <$25k to over $500K annually might be expected to pay and how much aid would be needed at the selected tuition level, according to data from hundreds of thousands of financial aid applications submitted through SSS.
The Median tab demonstrates the true center of incomes in the market indicated by your selected drive time, and compares these numbers with national median incomes. The chart shows 10 years of historical data, as well as five year projections, indicated by dotted lines, to help you see trends. Clicking the circles in the legend below the chart will toggle data on/off- this will help filter your data quickly, if you'd rather focus on national or local data.
Unlike calculations of average income, median income data is not skewed by large outliers- households making exceptionally high or low incomes.
Below, you'll see the five highest earning ZIPs within your drive time. Do these align with your anecdotal understanding of your market?
The High Income tab shows the number of families earning $200K or more in your selected drive time in the last ten years, with five-year projections included in dotted lines.
The Distribution tab breaks out the number and proportion of households in your selected drivetime across income bands. Income bands are grouped in increments of $25k. Remember that a household income reflects all individuals at the same address, and they might not be related by blood, marriage, or adoption, unlike groups under the Census designation of family.
The Census provides more nuanced income information for households, allowing us to display incomes over $500K with more detail in the chart.
The chart shows the proportion and number of households in your selected drive time earning income at each level, as well as whether SSS would expect households in that income band to pay full tuition, contribute partial tuition, or require full aid.
If you prefer to work with tabular data, this information is included in the table below.
The Race/Ethnicity tab offers a deeper look at the distribution chart above. In addition to information about the distribution of your market across income band and financial assistance designation, the chart shows you the racial/ethnic composition of each income band.
This chart contains a ton of information, so it can be useful to narrow the field of focus for targeted conversations. Market View has your back- hover the mouse over any of the bars in the chart to focus on one specific group, or use the small, colorful circles in the legend below the chart to toggle the data for different groups on or off.
You can also filter your data using the drop-down menus located just above the chart- click the type of data you'd like to filter, income or race/ethnicity, and click the blue check marks to engage or disengage selected variables.
The Change in Average tab can help you understand historical and projected shifts in income across different racial/ethnic groups in your market. This information is useful to assess risk, for example; If your school is heavily representative of one racial/ethnic group, and the projected household income is expected to decrease, you might need to consider other ways to shore up enrollment.
Now that you've uploaded data, here's how to view it.
There are three places your school's data appears in Market View: the map in Map View, the ZIP code detail cards also in Map View, and charts of your data display in the Enrollment section of the Trends page.
Your data is grouped into two categories in the layer selector panel, Admissions Data and Enrollment Data. Those two categories reflect the two categories of data you can add in the Your Data page.
If you want a more granular view of your data, check out the ZIP code cards in the left sidebar of the Map View. Every single ZIP code card will include your data, if you've uploaded it.
Note that ZIP code cards are small and so they only include the most recent two years of data for Admission Data. If you want to get around this limitation, feel free to upload your data as Miscellaneous Data. It won't be considered Admissions Data, so you won't get all the calculations and charts, but it's a workaround to get older data to still show on the map.
You'll see two groups: Admissions Data and Miscelleneous Data. Those reflect the two categories of data you can add in the Your Data page.
You'll also get calculations for your Admissions Data for the most recent two years. Total applicants, the percent of your applications which came from this ZIP, and the percent of school-age children from this ZIP who applied to your school.
To see charts of your data along with Market View's data, visit the Enrollments tab on the Trends page.
The Market View Trends page is a tool which provides powerful data to give you actionable metrics and predictions.
When you first sign into Market View, you'll land on the Trends Page.
At the top of the page, you'll see some default settings. The query paragraph reads, "Showing data within: 30 minutes drive of my school at a $27,950 tuition level."
$27,950 is the median tuition for NAIS schools, so we use it as the default tuition level.
In Market View, all charts, graphs, tables, and maps are customized for your school.
Customize the drive time query (choose a ten minute increment between 10-60 minutes)
Customize the tuition level (input any dollar amount you'd like to research)
Customize the geographical center point of the search. Market View has rich data for any US location. The location defaults to your school's address.
To change the drive time query or the tuition level, click into those text fields and adjust. To change the geographic centerpoint of the query, click "Change" near the address in the upper right.
Or, feel free to proceed without any customization! This query paragraph will always be at the top of the page for you to experiment.
Depending on where your school is, you may have a lot of ZIP codes in proximity. Market View lets you filter the data and focus on the most impactful areas. Click on the "113 ZIP codes" text and you'll see a list of all the ZIPs included in your search, as well as their neighborhood names.
You can click on any ZIP in the list and Market View will bring you to a page with every data point we use for that ZIP.
You can also search in the dropdown menu to find a specific ZIP or name.
Click "all" to open a dropdown where you can select how many ZIPs you want to see.
Click "Distance". You'll have the option of choosing distance, children, median income, or diversity.
For instance, you can elect to display only the 20 closest ZIPs, or the 30 highest income ZIPs, etc.
If you make selections using these filters, all other ZIPs will be hidden from the map and the data.
Don't be surprised to see a map with a lot of holes in it! The map below shows the thirty ZIPs (in blue) with the most children within an hour of the NAIS office.
Let's move on to the results!
If you are getting errors that Market View cannot import your file, follow this guide.
Open your CSV file in Microsoft Excel.
Click File in the top-left corner of your screen.
Select Save as...
Click the drop-down menu next to File format.
Select CSV UTF-8 (Comma delimited) (.csv) from the drop-down menu.
Click Save.
Your new CSV file is now encoded using the UTF-8 format and is ready to be imported.
Open your CSV file in Numbers.
Click File in the top-left corner of your screen.
Select Export to... -> CSV...
Click Advanced options.
Click the drop-down menu next to Text Encoding.
Select Unicode (UTF-8).
Click Next
Choose a name and location for your new file and click Save.
Your new CSV file is now encoded using the UTF-8 format and is ready to be imported.
When viewing your admission data, click on the name of the spreadsheet you want to delete.
Then click on the triple dot menu by the file name, and click "Delete".
Market View 6, released in fall 2022, enables schools to sync admissions data from their admission software. This guide walks you through how to set this up.
This guide is for schools who are NAIS members, and use Blackbaud for admissions or application data.
After one person at your school completes this process, the integration will work for everyone at your school. Each user should use their own login. Any NAIS member school can have unlimited staff accounts. Add and manage your school's roster at my.nais.org.
This integration syncs two types of data from Blackbaud into Market View.
Applicants. If it exists, we will sync names, grades, addresses, and student IDs for students who applied to your school.
Enrollments. If it exists, we will sync names, grades, addresses, and student IDs for students who enrolled in your school.
Market View is committed to the highest security of your data. We encrypt all data in transit from your admission software, and any time it is used. We encrypt the data within our database. Your data will never leave our database or be shared. We take data security and privacy extremely seriously. Read more about how Market View protects your data.
You'll need to go to Core > Security > Roles. (Do not try to manage roles for this from the security/control panel area).
Find the role in the list and choose Manage Roles from the menu.
Go to Members, Add member and search for yourself to add.
You'll need these roles:
Platform Manager or Environment Admin
Academic Group Manager, Schedule Manager, or Platform Manager
SKY API Data Sync
Admissions Manager
This step must be performed by one of your school’s administrators of Blackbaud, someone with “Platform Manager”, "Environment Admin" or equivalent permissions. If you aren’t an admin, feel free to forward these instructions to someone who is.
This step requires an admin user of Blackbaud with one of the following roles: Academic Group Manager, Schedule Manager, Platform Manager. In addition, the user must have the Admissions Manager role and Sky API Data Sync role. If that's not you, feel free to send these instructions to your administrator to complete.
Get an error? Need more help? Email marketview@nais.org.
Welcome to Market View's documentation site! Here you'll find tips and tricks on how to use Market View to supercharge your enrollment strategy.
Market View is a free benefit provided to NAIS member schools and premium subscribers. If you work for an organization that falls under either category, great! You have access to Market View. You can log in by visiting https://marketview.nais.org.
If you are interested in joining NAIS to get access to Market View, check out a partial list of member benefits or contact our membership team.
All good? Let's explore some of the main Market View features and concepts, starting with Trends.
The power of Market View comes from making it customized to your school and community. Upload data to see it on the map, and analyze your enrollment pipeline.
There are two types of data you can upload to Market View, student enrollment data and miscellaneous data. Because Market View is geographically driven, all data uploaded should have an address (a ZIP code at the very least).
You'll need one spreadsheet per year, containing all your applications or enrollments for that year. Please use this template and fill it in with your data.
For student data (applications and enrollments), the template contains five columns. We ask for Student ID so that one day we can show you attrition data, since it allows us to see when students move on to the next grade.
Please include all five columns and their titles in your spreadsheet, even if they are empty. The only column that requires a value is "Address", and that can be as minimal as a ZIP code. Note that you need to provide a full address to see students plotted on the map.
Jane
Doe
2134 KALORAMA RD NW, WASHINGTON DC 20008
1ac
1
Next, navigate to Your Data. Drag and drop each file to the appropriate school year bucket.
You can upload any type of addresses into the Miscellaneous category. Schools upload bus stops, faculty addresses, competitor schools, coffee shop locations, anything that would be helpful to see plotted on the Market View map.
Miscellaneous data only needs a valid address, no title or name required.
For miscellaneous data, the template contains four columns for each address. You can just upload a single column with the entire address as well, if it's easier. Market View concatenates the whole address before geocoding, so it doesn't matter how many columns you use as long as it's only one address per row.
456 Cherry Lane
New York
NY
12345
Next, navigate to Miscellaneous Data. Drag and drop each file to the gray bucket. Note that the file name will be used to label this data set in Your Data, as well as in Map View.
Addresses on miscellaneous data uploads which appear more than once won't show up. If you have an address listed more than once per file, it won't show up on the map or the address counts.
Any data that you uploaded prior to August 2022 was migrated to the Miscellaneous Data category. If that data would be better in the applications or enrollments categories, feel free to delete and re-upload. Please make sure you have a local copy of the data before you delete it from Market View, deletion is final. If you no longer have access to that data, and need to download it from Market View, please reach out and we wil try to help you get access.
Whenever you upload or import address data to Market View, we attempt to geocode it. Geocoding is the process of converting an address into a latitude/longitude pair of coordinates.
Often, international addresses will not geocode correctly. Here is a map with the countries with the most accurate and least accurate geocoding.
If your international address geocodes succesfully, you will see it on the map if you select that dataset's map layer. If the address doesn't geocode sucessfully, you will not see it plotted on the map.
After you upload your data, Market View will notify you if it had issues with any of the addresses. Feel free to delete the dataset, fix it, and try again. Often, putting the address into Google Maps and using the address the way Google formats it can be helpful.
Market View 6, released in fall 2022, enables schools to sync admissions data from their admission software. This guide walks you through how to set this up.
This guide is for schools who are members, and use for admissions or application data.
After one person at your school completes this process, the integration will work for everyone at your school. Each user should use their own login. Any NAIS member school can have unlimited staff accounts. Add and manage your school's roster at .
This integration syncs two types of data from Veracross into Market View.
Applicants. If it exists, we will sync names, grades, addresses, and student IDs for students who applied to your school. Note: applicants need to have an "application date" to be considered applicants for this process.
Enrollments. If it exists, we will sync names, grades, addresses, and student IDs for students who enrolled in your school.
Market View is committed to the highest security of your data. We encrypt all data in transit from your admission software, and any time it is used. We encrypt the data within our database. Your data will never leave our database or be shared. We take data security and privacy extremely seriously.
This step must be performed by one of your school’s administrators of Veracross, someone with “Oauth_App_Admin” permissions. If you aren’t an admin, feel free to forward these instructions to someone who is. If your admin doesn't see the button to "start integration", they need to go into their permissions and give themselves “Oauth_App_Admin” permission.
Note: this integration doesn't require SSO permissions.
Below describes what Market View does to import your data.
Fetch all historical students, applicants, applications, and applicant households
Discard students marked as "applicants" who haven't yet applied (these are usually just prospects)
Match each applicant to an application and household
If a matching application or household can't be found, an import failure is created
Assign a grade level to each applicant
If a grade level doesn't match our list of accepted grades, an import failure is created
Match each student to an applicant
If a matching applicant isn't found (e.g. if the applicant became an import failure), an import failure is created
For each applicant, look up or geocode their address
An applicant's corresponding student is also assigned this address
If an address can't be geocoded, the student and the applicant become import failures
Applicants are separated by year and saved into corresponding "applications" admissions lists
A student can be saved in several "enrollments" admissions lists
A student is saved in the enrollment list for the year of their "entry date", at the grade level from their application ("grade level applied for")
Each year after that, until their "exit date", a student is saved in that year with the next grade level
We assume students are promoted each year, since we don't have grade level information for a student for each year
Get an error? Need more help? Email marketview@nais.org.
The Veracross admission data sync is in beta. Veracross is working to improve their data endpoints to Market View can get the data it needs.
If you are seeing inconsistencies with the data syncing over from Veracross, please use this template to report the issues:
In addition, please let us know if there are any particular student record types that are missing from the data being synced over.
How and why to sync DASL data to Market View
Market View offers the ability to sync selected admission data from DASL.
In order to begin the sync, visit the You'll see a button that says "Refresh" or "Sync". Once you click the button, Market View will begin importing selected admission data.
Note that Market View will never import or sync data without your knowledge. Every data import from DASL or other sources needs to be initiated by clicking the "Refresh" or "Sync" button.
You'll see a notification at the bottom of your screen when the import is complete. Visit the in Market View to see what was synced.
If there is a conflict between the data you uploaded to Market View and the data you input into DASL, you'll see an icon with red crossed arrows. When you click that symbol, it will tell you which numbers are a mismatch. In the example below, you uploaded 232 for that variable, but you entered 89 into DASL. You cannot edit DASL data in Market View, but there is a handy link for you to edit each variable in DASL. "Edit on DASL" is the hyperlink you can click to fix DASL numbers. It will bring you directly to the exact cell you can edit.
If the numbers are black and not red, that means there is no conflict between Market View and DASL.
If the Market View numbers are wrong, head to the to adjust the counts for each bucket by deleting or adding spreadsheets, or importing from your admissions tool.
Once you've imported your DASL data and everything looks good, you can head to to see your DASL data in action. All four of the charts on this tab include DASL data.
The national averages included in these charts are the national average for schools entering data into DASL.
If you are having trouble syncing your Blackbaud data, please confirm the following steps are true. Blackbaud requires *three* types of permissions in order to sync your data.
If all of the above are true, and you're still having issues, please get in touch! Here is the template for reporting data discrepancies.
In addition, please let us know if there are any particular student record types that are missing from the data being synced over.
Visit the Veracross connection page in Market View:
2024 Enrollments
100
105
2024 Applications
100
95
2023 Enrollments
76
80
2023 Applications
60
55
...
Enrollment
Total school enrollment
1501
Enrollment by race
Asian
13577
Enrollment by race
Black/African American
13578
Enrollment by race
Middle Eastern
13579
Enrollment by race
Native American
13580
Enrollment by race
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander
13581
Enrollment by race
White
13582
Enrollment by race
Two or More Races
13583
Enrollment by race
Race Not Listed
13659
Enrollment by race
Race Unsure/Not Reported
13584
Enrollment by race
Total
13591
Enrollment by Ethnicity
Latinx/Hispanic
13637
Enrollment by Ethnicity
Not Latinx/Hispanic
13641
Enrollment by Ethnicity
Ethnicity Unsure/Not Reported
13642
Enrollment by Ethnicity
Total
13785
Enrollment by grade
Preschool
1528
Enrollment by grade
Kindergarten (Part-Time)
3468
Enrollment by grade
Kindergarten
1515
Enrollment by grade
Pre-First Grade
8625
Enrollment by grade
Grade 1
1454
Enrollment by grade
Grade 2
1458
Enrollment by grade
Grade 3
1459
Enrollment by grade
Grade 4
1460
Enrollment by grade
Grade 5
1461
Enrollment by grade
Grade 6
1462
Enrollment by grade
Grade 7
1463
Enrollment by grade
Grade 8
1464
Enrollment by grade
Grade 9
1465
Enrollment by grade
Grade 10
1455
Enrollment by grade
Grade 11
1456
Enrollment by grade
Grade 12
1457
Enrollment by grade
Postgraduate
1527
Admissions Activity
Admissions applications
1198
Admissions Activity
New students accepted, total
1129
Admissions Activity
Newly enrolled, total
1909
Admissions Activity
Acceptance rate
3111
Admissions Activity
Yield Rate
3368
Admissions Activity
Attrition Rate, total
1229
Admissions Activity
Attrition Rate, students of color
4162
Admissions Activity
Inquiries previous year, total
1803
Tution & Financial Aid
Number of financial aid recipients
14040
Tution & Financial Aid
Percentage of *new* students receiving financial aid
14046
Tution & Financial Aid
Percentage of *returning* students receiving financial aid
14047
Tution & Financial Aid
Number of financial aid applications
1924
Tution & Financial Aid
Total aid awarded
1502
2024 Enrollments
100
105
2024 Applications
100
95
2023 Enrollments
76
80
2023 Applications
60
55
...
Market View synthesizes several pieces of data to create the data you see on its pages.
The US Census happens once a decade, and the ACS is conducted in intervening years. In Market View, the years ending in "0" are census data, whereas data for all other years is from the ACS.
What is it?
EASI provides population estimates by age band (0-4,5-9, etc.) for the current year. These estimates are created using the 2010 census numbers, American Community Survey Data, and Public Use Microdata Survey. To calculate projections, EASI uses the estimates above as a starting point and applies population component change estimates (births, deaths, migration, etc.) to move that number forward. Read the full methodology here.
How do we use it?
EASI’s age band estimates are used to provide an approximation of the school-age population of a single-year age across ZIP codes. These estimates are then combined with mapping technology supplied by Mapbox (described below) to generate the customizable map that you see within Market View.
What is it?
EASI’s income model builds on a base estimate created using 2010 census data and estimates from the American Community Survey. EASI creates estimates from here by using consumer income survey data provided by the census (P60 Publication Series) and other sources of income data. Differences between the estimates provided from these data and the ACS values are analyzed to provide a final estimate. Income estimates use the 2010 Census household definition of income as a benchmark. Read the full methodology here.
How do we use it?
EASI’s median income estimates provide an economic snapshot of the various areas in your local community. EASI’s estimates of median family income can be used to get a sense of the wealth distribution of your area, or to see how affordable your school is for a typical family in your community.
What is it?
EASI also provides population estimates by sex and race/ethnicity for age bands in the current year. EASI uses annual estimates released by the census as the basis for their population by sex by race/ethnicity data. To calculate projections, EASI uses the census estimate as a starting point and applies population component change estimates (births, deaths, migration, etc.) to move that number forward. Read the full methodology here.
How do we use it?
EASI’s estimates for population by race/ethnicity provide schools with a fuller picture of the diversity of their local student population. These estimates are useful for schools seeking to understand how the racial and ethnic diversity of their student body compares to the local population. In addition, EASI’s estimates for population by sex provide more flexibility for single sex schools and other schools seeking to understand local differences in male and female populations. Note that Market View does not currently contain data on gender, as the underlying sources of data (EASI and the Census Bureau) do not currently collect this data.
What is it?
Mapbox’s traffic tilesets provide drivetime information, or the time it takes to get from point A to point B, to their maps. Mapbox bases its drivetime estimates on travel data that is transmitted from users of apps embedded with Mapbox technology, such as Airbnb, Instacart, and Snapchat. This data, which consists of over 220 million miles of travel per day, is used to predict and extrapolate real-time traffic, helping to further improve the accuracy of drivetimes. Read the full methodology here.
How do we use it?
We heard from members that time, not distance, is the most important metric in measuring a commute. As opposed to simply measuring distance, drivetimes provide a more comprehensive understanding of how conveniently located your school is for families in the area. In addition, Mapbox’s traffic control features provide a realistic understanding of the time it will take families to reach your school during typical commuting hours.
What is it?
EASI demographics provides five year projections for the population and income variables described above. These projections use EASI’s current year estimates as a starting point, and apply growth models to obtain a five year projection. The models incorporate factors such as births, deaths, and migration to obtain population projections, and build on data from the American Community Survey and Census Consumer Income Survey to obtain income projections. Read the full methodology here.
How do we use it?
EASI’s projections are a great way to get a sense of how your local area will be changing over the next several years. While projections are not often 100 percent accurate, they are a great starting point to see trends and begin conversations around how the school-age population, demographics, and income profile of your area are changing.
What is it?
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) provides data on public and private schools, which is gathered through its universe surveys each year. The surveys provide data on many schools across the United States, including basic descriptive information such as location, web address, and grade levels served.
How do we use it?
NCES’s school data is uploaded into Market View’s map, so you can keep your eye on competitors and potential feeder schools in your area. Each school is represented by a black circle on your map. Clicking the circle will provide the school’s name, type (Public/Private), website (where available), and grade levels served.
What is it?
NAIS uses data provided by Community Brands’ School and Student Services (SSS) financial aid service which analyzes applications for families across the country. Using the family income and parent contribution data from submitted applications, we calculate the median percentage of income that parents are asked to contribute to school costs by income bands. The contribution is subtracted from the tuition entered by the user to determine the estimated financial gap a family is likely to have to cover.
How do we use it?
By estimating the financial gap between what a family at the median income in a ZIP code is able to pay and the tuition your school, you will have a better picture of how affordable your tuition is in your market.
Market View is committed to the highest security of your data. We use a number of safeguards to protect and store your data.
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Permission to sync or upload your admission data is granted by you or your school. Data refreshes needs to be triggered by you or your school. Market View will not sync data without your initiation, each data sync will need to be triggered manually by you or someone else at your school.
Market View encrypts all of its traffic. This includes data flowing between Market View and your admission software. It also includes traffic between Market View's backend and frontend. We are using exclusively https to transfer data, with SSL encryption with SHA-256. This is bank-level security. Market View receives an A+ on SSL reports.
In addition, NAIS enforces HSTS, HTTP Strict Transport Security. This means that all NAIS domains and subdomains deny any unencrypted traffic. We are registered with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge as enforcing HSTS.
Market View has taken the additional step to encrypt all student and school data within our database. This is above the usual standard of security, but we felt it was important to protect the data with which you are entrusting us. We are using encryption that features random initialization vectors and tagged ciphertexts.
NAIS has conducted security audits with an outside cybersecurity firm to review compliance with proper security protocols and standards.
The only users with access to Market View are paid NAIS members and premium subscribers. Your data is only accessible to users who have accounts within your school and to NAIS for debugging and analysis purposes. If you are curious about who has an account with your school, visit the member portal and click roster.
COVID's impact on the economy can't be overstated. As such, the data from 2022 onward (which take COVID into account) are a radical departure from previous years.
The 2022 data is the first year of data with the new 2020 Census included fully as both a benchmark year and underlying the estimates. This means we have seen some big shifts when looking at the newest EASI data compared to earlier year releases, this is true not just with income but many Census-based variables since they have all been newly re-benchmarked.
You can see the household and family counts in San Francisco decreased quite a bit overall from 2020 to 2022, therefore this general decline is driving much of the family count declines you are seeing between 2020 and 2022 rather than income shifts per se.
If you convert the numbers into percentages rather than the actual numbers, this may be more helpful for you in looking at trends since overall changes in numbers make it harder to see trends when looking at counts. See attached Excel file and refer to the highlight columns at the right for an example of this.
Due to the timing of when data sources are released, the impact of the pandemic in data sources is not seen in 2020 but rather in the EASI 2021 data and in the EASI 2022 data in some cases, due to the lags in data sources. When there is an unusual shift such as the pandemic (other examples are natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina), we are constantly updating our projections and modeling as the latest data comes out.
One impact observed by the unusual 2020 time was slowed income growth and this can explain slower growth observed in general in income in certain instances and in the higher income categories specifically. For example, one theory is it may have been “easier” for a family to shift into the $150-200K group during this time than to shift into the $200K+ group or especially the $500K+ group. In general with Covid times, we have seen some shifts in income down in 2022 with a then expected uptick back up for 2027 though perhaps more modest 5-year gains forecasted than was projected in 5-year forecasts created a few years back.
Another point to keep in mind is that the EASI income data for the highest income categories is indeed modeled data based off of the family counts and full income distributions integrating the various income data inputs and also trends over time. Therefore, there is some built-in uncertainty in each estimate and very small percentage shifts can also be impacted by normal variability in the distributions and estimates. This can be seen in particular in very detailed categories such as cross tabs by both children’s age and income.
Request to import your admission data from Finalsite into Market View
Finalsite's API is in beta, and Market View does not currently have an integration. To request that NAIS build a data integration for your Finalsite data to Market View, email us at marketview@nais.org and let us know you would like to sync your data from the platform into Market View. We will continue to monitor the progress of the Finalsite API.
From Map View, run a query by clicking "Show me the results".
Then click "Download CSV"
You'll see the spreadsheet contains multiple lines for each ZIP code. This is because Market View provides data for multiple years.
Once you've identified ZIP codes for outreach in Market View, here's how to reach out to families who live there.
Instagram, Google Adwords, Facebook Ads, and others can use ZIP codes as parameters for audience selection. Sometimes you can further refine based on other parameters, such as income or psychographic data.
If you'd like to send physical mail to local addresses, you can pair Market View data with a tool from the Post Office called Every Door Direct Mail.
The Post Office will let you select individual postal routes to include. This is helpful especially if you have a bus stop nearby and you are looking for families with easy access to that bus stop.
This tutorial will help you get started with Market View. In 15 minutes, you'll have a data-rich visual you can drop into your next presentation to stakeholders at your school. Let's get started!
Market View can help you make the case for a proposed tuition change. It can help you estimate how many households in your area can afford full tuition.
Here are a few slides for our example school.
Click on the images below to see them full screen.
At the end of this 20-minute tutorial, you will have artifacts like these three slides.
First, let's get our affordability posture.
We'll navigate to the Affordability section.
On the Summary tab, Market View gives us an estimate of how many households can afford full tuition. We can copy and paste this into presentation to create our first slide.
Next, we want to look at the distribution of household income by race/ethnicity.
We'll click on the Race/Ethnicity tab.
You can filter by income brackets and race/ethnicity by checking and unchecking the options in the respective dropdowns in the top right corner of the graph.
You can download the graph by clicking the Download button. Now, you can add that image to your presentation.
Market View can help you demonstrate what your school's reach looks like now compared to five years from now. Here's how you might show that difference.
Click on the images to see them full screen.
At the end of this 10-minute tutorial, you will have artifacts like these two slides.
Let's dive into how to create this set of visuals for your school.
We'll start by adding your school's data into Market View. NAIS will never share your addresses, and you can delete them any time.
First, click and download the CSV template below and replace the example data with your school's.
The video below (<2 minutes) shows you how to do that.
Now that your data is in Market View, let's create your visuals.
First, navigate to the Map View tab.
Fill in the underlined items on the left and click Show me the results.
Select the type of map you want by clicking (change) above the map on the right and select Median Income by ZIP code in...
Add your data by selecting clicking the Map Layers button and selecting the data you would like to add.
Finally, position the map as you would like and click on the Download button and Download map to create a screenshot of just the map.
That's it! You're done with your school's current reach. Let's work on the 5-year forecast now.
Click to fill the checkbox for 2025 Forecast and click download the map for the 2025 forecast.
Now that you have your visuals you can insert them into your next presentation. Here's what that looks like for our Acorn School example.
This tutorial will help you get started with Market View. In 15 minutes, you'll have a data-rich visual you can drop into your next presentation to stakeholders at your school. Let's get started!
Market View can help you get really specific and look at specific ZIP codes. Here's how we might show that information for our example school.
Click on the images below to see them full screen.
At the end of this 10-minute tutorial, you will have artifacts like these four slides.
First, navigate to the Map View tab.
Fill in the underlined items on the left and click Show me the results. The Map will update based on your search criteria.
You can Sort by median income, number of children, and number of children of color to start refining your search.
We can take a look at how the market might change in the next 5 years by clicking the 2025 Forecast checkbox.
You can get more detailed data by clicking the Your Data and Demographics accordion toggles.
Now that you have the data you're interested in, you can start putting together a slide that tells a data-rich story.
Here's an example where we are showing the total addressable market for the 20001 ZIP code and what the numbers for a five-year goal of 0.5% might look like.
That's it! You're ready to get detailed data for your school's local market and tell your data story.
Use Market View to create a presentation for your board or team.
The following quick guides will walk you through creating a presentation with Market View's graphs and data.
We will be building a presentation just like this one. Feel free to duplicate these slides, and then use the following guides to replace the data and graphs with your school's data and graphs.
This tutorial will help you get started with Market View. In 15 minutes, you'll have a data-rich visual you can drop into your next presentation to stakeholders at your school. Let's get started!
Market View can help you identify trends for your local market. For example, let's say we wanted to look at affordability and race/ethnicity. We might want to show the Change in Average Household Income by Race/Ethnicity and Change in School-Aged Population by Race/Ethnicity.
At the end of this 5-minute tutorial, you will have artifacts like these two slides. These are just two examples of the trends you can look at in Market View.
Let's first take a look at the Change in Average Household Income by Race/Ethnicity. We'll go to the Affordability section under the Trends tab in Market View.
Next, we'll select Change in Average.
We'll download an image of this graph by clicking the Download button in the top right.
Now, let's grab our second graph that shows Change in School-Aged Population by Race/Ethnicity.
We'll go to the Diversity section under the Trends tab in Market View.
Next, we'll select Change.
Finally, we'll download an image of this graph by clicking the Download button in the top right.
That's it! We have the two graphs we need for our presentation. We can just drop them into our presentation like this.
These are just two of 16 trend graphs available in Market View. Have fun digging into the data and trends for your local market!
Remove old google analytics
Update wording in about our data page
Make entire nav boxes clickable
Redirect to /your-data after connecting veracross
Swap to show DASL value in column when there is a mismatch
Bump @percy/cli from 1.8.0 to 1.26.0
Add admissions data to standalone zip view
Update mapbox
Add forecasts to zip view
Update affordability statement text
Add a column for 10-year change to the overview tab of trends.
Add parenthetical percentages to race counts on data cards
Split feature flag for blackbaud and veracross
Fix for race breakdown percentages when zero
Update text around the beta
Change styling of the race breakdown percentages
Label counts for admissions list data as 'students' rather than
Add sparkles emoji to the new tag
Add overlay to tables that are scrolled horizontally
Copy edits on sort bar on trends
Updates to trends/enrollments
Only use localstorage for map layer status on /map
Add admissions data section to map cards
Add choropleths for most recent and second most recent year applications
Request previous three years, not including current school year for
Display admissions items in the zip on the map, including a tooltip
Add filter to request for admissions list items on map to only get two most recent years
Update text of link to download upload template / Obscure client secret field on veracross form
Rename multiple to multiracial
Correct tutorial "hole" on filters on very wide monitors
Fix bug where zip codes would toggle visibility when mousing over
New "Your Data" section with ability to add admissions data
Enable a new section under trends: "Enrollment" that uses admissions data
Add in-app chat
Update help link
Update terms and conditions
Format saturation and conversion totals as percentages with one decimal
Fixes for analysis chart
Add (last 10 years) to opportunities sort selector options
Fix text color of school tooltips on maps
Remove population series from diversity chart on my-school/trends
Update link to uploading field guide
Update Check Now links to Learn More and link to help sections
Implement the help modal on Your Data
Add terms notice to connect pages and data upload pages
Update terms
Fix full-pay, partial-need, and full need labels on distribution chart when all of a particular section is deselected
Fix some library UI issues
Fix display of author on reports in library
Replace many address fields on school with one, 'address'
Released May 10, 2022
Change choropleth on trends/overview to be forecast percentage
Remove the dash in the drive time selectors
Released May 2, 2022
Upgrade to 4.2 of Ember + addons
Delete the old research tab
Fix uploading multiple files and dropping files
Remove zip labels on trends
Add tooltips on zip lists on trends
Add year selector to population change chart
Hide All Ages series by default on School-age population by age
Add tooltip for private schools on trends
Extend styles from trends to the rest of the app
Add percentage of children of total population as choropleth option
Display 'No addresses found' when no results searching for addresses
Remove boxes around data labels on column charts on map
Add query params to trends for drive time, centerpoint and tuition so they persist across tab and when sharing links
Persist layer selection status in local storage
Remove ability to edit age preferences
Change age buckets on trends to default buckets
Fix horizontal scroll on mobile
Create the new 'Your Data' route, available at /your-data
Update fields to correctly display PK-12 instead of K-12
Released March 04, 2022
Allow duplicate addresses across datasets
Released Feb 08, 2022
Add option of selecting boys, girls, children in the query paragraph on Map View
Improve render performance on the Map View when many zips are returned
Replace the forecast toggle with a checkbox
Display a warning 5 minutes before a user's session will expire, giving the user the option to log in again or to keep working
Display a dialog when the user's session is expired, telling the user to log in again
Use contribution %s for financial gap calculations
Display a tooltip on income breakdown charts on cards to show the financial gap for each income range
Round affordability numbers to nearest 1000 to convey their fuzziness
Add a chart to trends/affordability to show the breakdown of tuition into financial gap and contribution
Add zones for full pay / partial need / full need to household income distribution by race chart on Trends
Add additional quotes to the landing page
Link ZIPs to an page with all data about that ZIP
Released June 16, 2021
Display names of ZIPs where they are displayed
Add additional controls to show and hide series on charts on the Trends tab
Add ability to save images of maps on Trends
Add a legend for the travel time display on maps on Trends
Fix a bug on the Map tab where clicking on a ZIP in the map that started with '0' would not scroll to the ZIP's card
Show labels on maps when zoomed out further
Show the tuition on saved reports
Fix the display of ZIPs on the maps in the Library
Various Copy Edits
Improve the mobile UI of the trends area
Add more debugging info around missing location info
Adjust styles to make control sentence UI work on mobile
Change how copying works to possibly make it more reliable on Chrome
Add debugging around fetching zips if the lat and long are missing
Released May 17, 2021
Add /trends section
Remove /research
Move Trends to be the landing page after login
Released May 03, 2021
Add /trends but keep it hidden until we're ready to release
Released Mar 15, 2021
Add additional map color options and data about children of color
Close the upper-left hamburger menu when clicking anywhere outside of it
Display a tooltip on the map when clicking a point from an address dataset
Upgrade Ember
Upgrade Highcharts
Released Jan 07, 2021
Appropriately title the filenames of downloads of charts
Appropriately title data in chart downloads
Hide duplicate dropdown navigation items (under hamburger) on desktop
Bugfix: Correctly get fresh data for forecasted reports when chosen search parameters change
Bugfix: Hide children-of-color data and maps until data can be corrected
Bugfix: Show the year of data displayed, not current year, under the income breakdown charts
Released Dec 14, 2020
Change the selection of the visualization variable to a selection of map visualization by name
Default to showing 'Number of Children by Zip Code' map visualization
Default the map zoom to encompass all the zip codes in the result, rather than just the travel time border
Show a tooltip in the upper right of the map when a zip code is hovered with details for that zip
Make the Layer Selector and Report Downloads more prominently featured with icons in the upper right
Move the visualization variable scale over the map on the bottom right.
Makes consistent use of colors for typography
Include the # of Children of Color in selected age ranges on the zip card
When showing the forecast in the report results, show the % change for each value
Fix a display issue with labels that have tooltips
Released Dec 01, 2020
Update the icon for the menus on charts
Update the export options on charts
Add clarification about scope of data on the Demographics pane of the zip card
Update links to Help, add additional link to Help in the header
Bugfix: Fix styling of menus on library
Bugfix: Ensure files that are text/csv successfully upload
Released Nov 09, 2020
Fix a bug where financial gap was not available in exports
Released Oct 16, 2020
Use a hosted image for the twitter card
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If your school is a full member in good standing, then you have access to Market View. If you are having trouble logging in, try the following:
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. It regularly gathers information previously contained only in the long form of the decennial census, such as ancestry, citizenship, educational attainment, income, language proficiency, migration, disability, employment, and housing characteristics. These data are used by many public-sector, private-sector, and not-for-profit stakeholders to allocate funding, track shifting demographics, plan for emergencies, and learn about local communities.[1] Sent to approximately 295,000 addresses monthly (or 3.5 million per year), it is the largest household survey that the Census Bureau administers.[2]
For Market View, "Children of Color" or "Students of Color" are children aged 0-17 who do not identify as white. We acknowledge that this definition is lacking and problematic but unfortunately we are working from the Census data and have to work within its established categories.
For Market View's purposes "children of color" equals the total amount of children minus white/non-hispanic children.
Pronounced "core-o-pleth".
A choropleth map (from Greek χῶρος (choros) 'area/region', and πλῆθος (plethos) 'multitude') is a type of statistical thematic map that uses pseudocolor, i.e., color corresponding with an aggregate summary of a geographic characteristic within spatial enumeration units.
People often confuse a choropleth map for a heatmap. Market View does not contain heatmaps. Choropleths have distinct geographical boundaries for each color, whereas heatmaps show gradual color changes.
EASI is a New York-based demographics data solutions and statistical estimating firm that specializes in consumer demographics. EASI takes public data, and provides it to NAIS along with their own projections.
A family is a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family.
A heat map (or heatmap) is a data visualization technique that shows magnitude of a phenomenon as color in two dimensions. The variation in color may be by hue or intensity, giving obvious visual cues to the reader about how the phenomenon is clustered or varies over space.
A household consists of all the people who occupy a housing unit. A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is, when the occupants do not live with any other persons in the structure and there is direct access from the outside or through a common hall.
A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated people, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated people sharing a housing unit such as partners or roomers, is also counted as a household. The count of households excludes group quarters.
An isochrone map in geography and urban planning is a map that depicts the area accessible from a point within a certain time threshold. An isochrone (iso = equal, chrone = time) is defined as "a line drawn on a map connecting points at which something occurs or arrives at the same time".
The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two equal groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount. It may differ from the mean (or average) income. The income that occurs most frequently is the income mode.
Market View uses this formula to calculate saturation: A school's enrollment in a given ZIP, divided by the total school age population in that ZIP.
Market View uses Mapbox to calculate travel times.
Traffic Data speed predictions are calculated using the 300 million miles of de-identified location data collected daily from mobile devices running Mapbox-powered apps.
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The list of ZIPs for which Market View doesn't include data.
Here is the list of ZIPs for which Market View doesn't include data. Some ZIPs are in military locations, or college campuses. The Census doesn't consider those ZIPs to have permanent residences, so we don't have data for those ZIPs. Other ZIPs are islands, territories or remote locations. Please reach out if you have questions or think a ZIP shouldn't be on this list.