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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why they limit the ranking at school level. As they want to help those disadvantaged kids, why don’t them use the applicants’ SES as grouping. It will be much more effective to help those disadvantaged kids.[/quote]

....because they don't have it. They only have FARMS and non-FARMS, which isn't a great metric because it only tells you whether a child is actively in poverty and cannot differentiate between a kid whose parents make $41K and a kid whose parents make $410K.

There are also a fair number of families who would qualify for FARMS but don't access the services for their own religious or social reasons.

For better or worse, and due to a century of deliberate housing policy, our county is highly segregated. That's a status quo that has been upheld by those in power, who could have approved mixed-income housing and reduced the existence of concentrated poverty a long time ago, but chose not to.

So, as a result of those policies and a whole bunch of NIMBY-ism, school zone remains one of the best proxies for SES that MCPS has at its fingertips. [/quote]

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