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In addition, the graphs on the following pages illustrate the distribution of families with <br /> distribution among housing units of • <br /> different numbers of public school children and the g g <br /> different types. The most surprising result of these analyses is that fewer than 50% of new <br /> housing units in both school districts are occupied by families with children currently in the <br /> public school system. The other units, however, may have children in private schools or pre- <br /> school children who will someday attend public schools. In addition, the percentage of units <br /> with children varies among the two school districts, with the percentage of units with children <br /> markedly higher in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District than in the Orange County School <br /> District. <br /> Most of the public school children in new housing units are elementary school children, <br /> with smaller numbers in middle school and high school. Compared to the distribution of all <br /> public school children in the 1994-1995 year, new housing units have a greater proportion of <br /> elementary school students than the population at large. This indicates that new housing units <br /> tend to have more elementary school students than average. <br /> • <br /> Student Generation Rates <br /> In spite of the large number of families in new housing units without children, there is <br /> still a high student generation rate for new housing units as a whole in the Chapel Hill- <br /> Carrboro School District: 0.63 children per unit. Comparing the student generation rates in <br /> the table below for different housing types may be misleading, however, since single family <br /> homes are the only residential type for which there is a wide base of data. <br /> One problem with the student generation rates for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School <br /> District is the presence of two large developments which may not be typical. One is the Carol <br /> Woods Retirement Community, which makes up almost half of the duplexes built in 1992- <br /> 1994. These units were included in the student generation rate calculation but removed from <br /> the data set before performing the more advanced statistical analyses described below. <br /> The other development which may be atypical is the Dobbins Hill Apartment Complex, <br /> which is an affordable housing project. It was the only apartment complex built in the Chapel <br /> Hill-Carrboro School District during the three years of this study. This means that the student • <br /> 6 <br />