What is covered in this article?
Why is this important?
Some schools need to track whether a family resides in their catchment or school boundary zone or not. This is typically defined by a boundary map outlining an area for eligibility. This can be a government requirement or a specific desire for parochial schools.
Knowing this information can assist school's decision on whether a family is eligible to apply or start at their school. However, these decisions are often based on a variety of other parameters that are specific to each school so often need to be an individual decision in the end.
As a result, we have created two fields that schools can enable to decide if they wish to track this information.
Adding Catchment or Eligibility Status fields
These fields can be added by following the steps in this article. They will appear throughout the application and on various forms. All of this is detailed in the article above.
How to Use These Fields
Once they have been turned on, consider the following options on how to best use these fields.
- Collecting information on Geographic Status
- Add this field to any relevant forms including relevant Signup forms and Apply forms to allow families to specify whether they believe they are within your catchment area or not
- Review and edit the default field label for this field to match your needs
- Review and edit the default list items for this field
- Decide if you want to include Geographic Status as a Lead Score Rule
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On Apply forms, consider including an image of your catchment zone projected over a map to clearly illustrate the boundary area for your school's catchment zone. |