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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So that means all of these schools would have a lower overall FARMS rate with no transfers, correct? I had no idea the transfer rate was so high. That's another problem with drawing boundaries.[/quote]

That's why the way Staff is calculating FRL in the boundary change proposal is a problem.  It's "projecting" a lower FRL than will actually be in the schools.  Staff is accounting for residential developments that will open in the 2019-20 timeframe; but they are not projecting a FRL associated with those additional students.  When they KNOW the development is a CAF - and they have an estimated # of students to be generated by that CAF - they should be counting them as FRL for the "new boundary FRL" estimate.[/quote]

Its a huge problem.  It is both leading to effectively undercounting their FARMS percentage, but more seriously it will also lead to a seat distribution problem.  They are assuming that people transfer out at equal numbers across the county.  But we all know that is not true.  So it means that for schools that have a higher transfer rate- e.g. Barcroft, they are going to have a ton of empty seats whereas schools with a lower transfer rate will be overcrowded.[/quote]

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