The following items represent changes in the estimation procedures used for school district, county, and state poverty estimates for 2013 relative to the estimation procedures used for 2012. These changes reduce the comparability of the estimates between years and should be considered when making such comparisons. See General Cautions about Comparisons of Estimates and Guidance for Making Year-to-Year Comparisons.

There were no changes in the list of county-level entities or methodology in 2013 relative to 2012 estimates.

There were no changes in the list of state-level entities or methodology in 2013 relative to 2012 estimates.

The SAIPE school district estimates incorporate the latest available boundary updates from the School District Review Program (SDRP), which are updated every two years. For the 2013 estimates, boundaries were utilized from the 2013-2014 SDRP, which collected boundaries as they existed on January 1, 2014.

The list of school districts for 2013 can be obtained by downloading the SAIPE 2013 school district estimates database, available by state or complete national format.

In regards to school district methodology, the school district-level population estimates for 2013 are based on the Decennial 2010 population counts, benchmarked to sum to the Census Bureau’s official county-level population estimates for July 1, 2013.