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With the end of the school year approaching, it’s a time when schools are planning year-end celebrations and when this year’s graduates are becoming anxious about the big step they will soon take to the next phase of their young lives. This is also the time of year when plans are being made for the next school year and beyond.

An important issue at this time of year, for example, is the process for estimating how many students we are likely to have next September. Using that information, we then can determine how many teachers we will need to hire this summer and how to allocate our cl...