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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the estimated impact table on page 4 saying about W-L? Is it saying that under Option 1, F/RL percentage at W-L rises to 45%? That defies logic, so perhaps I am misunderstanding the table.[/quote]

Okay, I think I am misreading it. I think it is saying that under Option 1, 45% of the students moving out of W-L are F/RL.[/quote]

[b]I actually think it is saying that if that particular option is taken, then the FARMS rate at W-L will become 45%[/b]. There is another column that shows the percentage of FARMS kids in each option -- that column includes that 62% number for one of the Wakefield options people were getting bent out of shape about. I think the new column is to show the overall impact on FARMS which will result from the options. Interesting thing is that Yorktown really doesn't change - 13-14% regardless of which option. And Wakefield doesn't change much - only a point or two up and down, which is the point the AF parents were making. It looks like W-L will have a higher percentage of FARMS with any option because they will be taking rich kids from W-L and sending them to Yorktown. [/quote]

Mathematically, I don't see how this can be true, and looking at the chart on page 5 it seems to me they've made a mistake. Can somebody help me out here?

On page 5, the second to last column says that there will be 873 F/RL students at W-L if option 1 is implemented. That's how they've calculated the 45% F/RL rate for W-L under option 1 (873/1941=0.45).

But where does the 873 number come from? It looks to me like it is the sum of the current number of F/RL students at W-L (727) and the number of F/RL students [i]who are moving out of W-L[/i] (146) under option 1. 727+146=873.

But those 146 students ARE MOVING OUT OF W-L. Shouldn't the number of F/RL kids in W-L under option 1 be 727 MINUS 146? That is, 581. So the percentage of F/RL students remaining at W-L under option 1 would be 581/1941=[b]30%[/b].

Happy to be corrected.

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Me again. Looking at this more, I am sure I am right about the error. In the upper rows of this chart, it is correct to add the current number of F/RL students at Yorktown or Wakefield with the number of F/RL students who will be moving INTO those schools. So it's correct to say that, under option 1, there will be 1013 F/RL students at Wakefield--the current 881 plus the 132 who will be moving in (881+132=1013). But when you calculate the numbers for W-L, you need to SUBTRACT, not add.

I know people make mistakes all the time, but this isn't a computation error. This is a complete lack of numbers sense. Anyone with any numbers sense at all should have said, upon seeing W-L's F/RL rate go from 31% to 45%, "wait, how can that be true?" SMH.[/quote]

And in case you are wondering, the correct F/RL percentages for W-L under the proposed options are:

Option 1: 30%
Option 2: 31%
Option 3: 34%[/quote]

Thank goodness there are others out there who can do math.  It was driving me crazy how wrong these numbers are but my spouse told me to leave it alone.[/quote]

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