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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]According to US Census, Silver Spring has only 11% poverty. Median income is somewhere around $72,000. Why are many all the kids in the public schools? Why such a high concentration of poverty in the public schools?[/quote]

This is weird. Even Blair is 50% FARMS. All the other DCC schools seem to be at least half FARMS too. It could be that the census is counting households and lots of retirees are being counted? Still 11% seems very low considering the level of poverty within the schools. [/quote]
Kemp Mill area? It is very heavily o
Are you shocked that people with means won't send their kids to bad schools?  Take Kemp Mill ES, GS-4.  Median income per the census of the vast majority of the property zoned for that school is $124k.  Farms rate at the school is 70%.  When the schools suck, anyone who can leave will leave, by whatever means possible.  Redrawing boundaries will change this exactly zero percent.  [/quote]
Did you deliberately choose Kemp Mill to try to get an extreme example? Or do you really not know anything about the kemp mill area? There is a very high concentration of orthodox Jewish families who send their kids to religious schools. So the local school is not representative of the neighborhood.
Why not look st Woodside, Seven Oaks, Woodmoor, Indian Spring? The public schools those neighborhoods feed to are much lower than 70% FARMS. [/quote]

Kemp Mill may indeed be an outlier, but let’s go to Arcola (GS 2) right next door. Median income of circa 62k, or put another way half the households make at least $14,000 more that the reduced meal threshold for a family of 4. FARMs rate of 76%. Not quite as extreme as Kemp mill but indicative of the fact that those who can leave do. [/quote]

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