2025-26 High School FARMS Rates Reported by VDOE

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Anonymous wrote: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

For now it's correlated but I think the economy is going to tank and those numbers are going to rise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These numbers look low, I thought it was higher.

I bet if you look at Elementary Schools, it's higher. Secondary kids do not want to identify as low-income.

The numbers have nothing to do with kids self-identifying as FARMs or not.

How not? How else are they identified if not by the families?

The State does a match against SNAP rolls and identifies free and reduced meal kids that way. It is called categorically eligible. Then the families don’t have to do the school meal paperwork.

[Anonymous]

When did Annadale and Justice rates go down? They used to be 50%, MVHS is number one on something now. [

quote=Anonymous]Large variations in FARMS rates persist in FCPS high schools, according to Virginia Department of Education data for the current school year:

Mount Vernon 55.4%
Herndon 47.6%
Justice 47.5%
West Potomac 47.5%
Falls Church 45.3%
Lewis 43.8%
Annandale 41.1%
Edison 36.7%
Westfield 35.8%
Fairfax 34.5%
South Lakes 31.4%
Hayfield 31.3%
Centreville 30.8%
Marshall 24.1%
South County 22.5%
Lake Braddock 21.8%
Chantilly 20.5%
West Springfield 17.0%
Oakton 16.5%
Woodson 14.3%
Robinson 13.8%
TJHSST 13.7%
McLean 13.2%
Madison 10.1%
Langley 4.6%

Boundary changes adopted in January 2026 do not reflect any systematic effort to narrow these differences. On a stand-alone basis, the changes stand to increase the FARMS rates at Mount Vernon, Justice, Marshall, and Langley and reduce the rates at West Potomac, Falls Church, McLean, and Madison. The impact of the small Chantilly/Fairfax boundary change would likely be immaterial. The upcoming boundary adjustments for Skyview could also impact FARMS rates at Centreville, Chantilly, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield.