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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is headed to GW Middle in the fall. No friends are leaving - all are going to GW. In six years in ACPS, four families have moved -all out of state - three military transfers and one back to home state for personal reasons. We don't know anyone that has left because of schools. I don't doubt that there are some, like PP, I just don't think that it is as systematic as people love to claim.[/quote]

But as I posted before, the people who you said left would be HHI not FARMS.  The ability to move and transfer - whether from a job or for personal reasons - is way more correlated to those who are employed with decent incomes vs. those who are employed in low wage jobs, living public housing, etc.

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Do you know what HHI means? [quote]What is the support for the repeated claim ACPS is full of kids from families with no HHI?[/quote][/quote]

Defining HHI to mean household income, you will not find direct ACPS data on household income by quantile percent on ACPS. It may be helpful and should be considered by ACPS. However there is ample (in)direct evidence on FARMS income available (free and reduced meals):

[quote]A greater percentage (32 percent) of ACPS students who took the SAT are from families with incomes below $30,000 than the average for Virginia (15 percent) or the nation (22 percent). The percent of ACPS test-takers with a first language other than English is 23 percent, which is far higher than Virginia's 7 percent or the nation's 13 percent. Only 56 percent of ACPS students reported "English only" as their first language, as compared with 82 percent for Virginia and 70 for for the nation.[/quote]

http://www.acps.k12.va.us/news2015/nr2014100701.php

[quote]SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Eligible for free or reduced price meals: 59.79%
Receiving talented and gifted services: 11.45%
Students requiring English Language Learners (ELL) services: 28.63%
Students receiving special education services: 10.33%[/quote]

http://www.acps.k12.va.us/fastfact.php

[quote]In the City of Alexandria, about 60 percent of the Alexandria Public Schools students are poor enough to qualify for subsidized meals. That’s more than 8,000 of the city’s 13,000-plus students.[/quote]

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2015/jul/15/alexandria-backpacks-all/[/quote]

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