Capacity is how many students a school can hold; utilization is how full it is.

In Leander. The 30 elementary schools can hold 25,157 students, by the demographer’s count.1

Everyday comparison. It is like seats on a bus and how many are taken.

Related terms: demographer. Read more: school capacity.

Footnotes

  1. PASA, Fall 2026 demographic study, Oct. 29, 2026 packet, pages 100–101. Packet page 100. ↩