2025-26 High School FARMS Rates Reported by VDOE
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Anonymous
The really high rates are at the elementary schools. To some degree it’s to be expected, younger parents of younger children are more likely to be one income households or not financially stable yet. I’m surprised that only MVHS was over 50% though. |
Anonymous
I bet if you look at Elementary Schools, it's higher. Secondary kids do not want to identify as low-income. |
Anonymous
Numbers end up being concentrated based on where people can afford housing and ES are the smallest schools so the numbers are concentrated. The MS numbers are slightly lower because ou are bringing in multiple ES, some of which might not be high FARMs. HS numbers drop in some cases because you are bringing kids from multiple MS. |
Anonymous
The numbers have nothing to do with kids self-identifying as FARMs or not. |
Anonymous
Are you planning to have all people pay a flat real estate tax? If not then of course the wealthier more educated zones will have lower illegals and poors. |
Anonymous
| The poors are happy to farm it up let them stay where they are. The only way to fix this is to enforce illegal immigration. I bet if your layer on esol and farms there is a major correlation. Layer over illegal immigration and the same will be seen |
Anonymous
| Free and Reduced-Price Meals (FARMS) for those that don't know. |
Anonymous
Yes there is a big correlation between FARMS and ESOL in suburban districts in particular. Not as much in urban (but can be depending on the neighborhood) or rural where it would be all poor whites. |
Anonymous
I wasn't finding the data for the HS and MS level, if someone can point me to the URL I appreciate it. With Sandburg and Whitman feeding to MVHS does a non-trivial portion of non-FARMS students go elsewhere such that the ~47% MS rates end up equaling 55.4% at MVHS? Reverse of that, 50.6% of LJMS ends up lowering to 45.3% at FCHS, ditto Glasgow to Justice/Anndandale. |
Anonymous
You can do a tailored search for economically disadvantaged students in the relevant grades at: https://www.doe.virginia.gov/data-policy-funding/data-reports/statistics-reports/enrollment-demographics |
Anonymous
The areas they are proposing to move are from Bull Run ES which is a high FARMs school outside of the AAP center classes. Westfield will probably end up with higher FARMs. The Bull Run neighborhoods zoned to CVHS do not want to move to Westfield and have been making a lot of noise about it to school board and FCPS. |
Anonymous
If Chantilly loses Oak Hill to Skyview, the FARMS rate there goes up although it could be offset to some degree if other higher FARMS areas move to Westfield. |
Anonymous
| I'd be curious to see how many of these are feds who applied while furloughed last year. |
Anonymous
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The VDOE data is of September 30th and identifies an "Economically Disadvantaged" student as one who meets any one of the following criteria: "1) is eligible for Free/Reduced Meals, or 2) receives TANF, or 3) is eligible for Medicaid, or 4) identified as either Migrant, experiencing Homelessness, Foster, or Head Start."
This is somewhat different than the data reported by FCPS on its school profiles, which is based on free/reduced meals eligibility as of the end of the school year in June. So, for example, to the extent that economically disadvantaged students are more likely to drop out of high school over the course of a year, the FCPS percentages could be lower. Conversely, if for whatever reason there was an influx of low-income immigrants to a school, or feds lost their jobs, over the course of a school year, the year-end percentages reported by FCPS could be higher than the VDOE percentages. |
Anonymous
How not? How else are they identified if not by the families? |