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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The data is a little iffy. They highlight Pocomoke Elementary on the Maryland shore as way outperforming expectations relative to poverty level. Yet they have Pocomoke's poverty level as 100%, which is flatly incorrect (it's more like 65%). Pocomoke is outperforming their demographics, don't get me wrong. But not by quite as much as these graphs show. Every school in Dorchester County has a 100% poverty rate--which, again, incorrect and skews the data.

Some thing in North Carolina--according to this data, far more schools have poverty rates of 95-100% than what the state's own publicly available data says there are. Conversely, Arizona shows an absurd number of 0% poverty schools.[/quote]

Schools will show up as 100% poverty in some data if they meet the threshold for community eligiblity for free lunch - meaning that everyone gets free lunch because the percentage is high enough. You can see DCPS's list here: https://dcps.dc.gov/page/community-eligibility-provision-cep-schools.

Dunno what's happening in Arizona![/quote]

This is not true and CEP eligibility is now different than Title 1 anyway, making it more confusing. But if you look at DC’s data, you will see that schools here are not all showing up as 100% poverty even if T1 (and certainly not if CEP eligible only, which includes schools like L-T and Bancroft that are much closer to the left than the right on DC’s graph).[/quote]

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