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[quote=Anonymous]I am an RHPS parent who follows (and occasionally contributes to) the discussions on this school and the related issues (redistricting, new middle school, etc) on this board. My children have had a great experience at RHPS, fwiw. But there has always been one thing that I didn't quite understand - these boards always talk about the higher percentage of FARMs (free lunch/lower income) families at Rosemary Hills - the MCPS website info says that it is 19 percent for the current year. But the numbers for the two schools that RHPS feeds into (CCES and NCC) are substantially lower: 5.6% for NCC and 8.9% for CCES. Plus a smaller subset of RHPS kids go to BE, which also has a lower proportion of FARMs kids (6.7%). How can that be? Shouldn't the demographics of the population at the feeder school be pretty similar to the demographics at the schools it feeds into?

Please don't flame me, I'm not passing judgment on anyone irrespective of income, and I think my children are getting a great education at RHPS. I just don't see it as quite as diverse as the stats seem to indicate - the vast majority of my children's classmates seem very much upper middle class, or maybe even the 1% crowd. Yet if the overall stats are right at least 1 in 5 should be qualifying for a free lunch.

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