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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I realized with the new data that APS published last night on 'resident' FARMS students, that I could reverse out the number of FARMS students who transfer as compared to the number of non-FARMS students who transfer out of a given zone.   I thought others might be interested.

Abingdon- 114 FARMS transfers- 432 total transfers.

Barcroft- 56 FARMS Transfers- 322 total transfers.

Henry 25 FARMS Transfers- 110 total transfers.

Long Branch- 17 FARMS transfers 181 total transfers

Oakridge 42 FARMS transfers 220 total transfers

Randolph 1 FARMS transfer 166 total transfers

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Can you describe your arithmetic? I think the interpretation is plausible but you'd expect to see stronger effects at schools with higher farms rates if "fleeing" holds water. Also,  Oakridge and Henry have themselves lower farms rates than the option schools ... so what are those families "fleeing"?

You'd also want to know which schools are just transferring a lot of kids as a proportion of resident total, rich or poor - and that would point to things like neighborhood preference for option schools . Then there is spanish immersion, which further complicates the analysis since it was actually designed not as a way to escape economic diversity but to encourage it; that is why Key became immersion in 1986, to get white families back into the school.

So I think the "fleeing" explanation is a factor there are a lot of variables that make quantifying it messy.[/quote]

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