ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a series of applications which utilise some of those techniques employed throughout this book and integrates them within broader Geographic Information Science techniques to investigate school "market areas". This chapter develops a series of case studies relevant to a range of stakeholders in Higher Education. These directly relate to a series of analysis that these groups of people may wish to perform including exploring the effects of different school selection policy, investigating operational issues such as selecting the most appropriate schools to target with widening access initiatives. Then it also includes performing geographical analysis of school market areas and creating school performance benchmarks to target resources to raise attainment in low participation neighbourhoods. Furthermore, GIS/GIScience functionality has been shown to be relevant to extending educational geodemographics to visualise geographic market areas of schools.
