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[quote=RantingAtheist][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a scholarly measure of concentrated poverty where even non-poor children suffer within a community.  That percentage is 30%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_poverty

I know that when we were at our previuos school it was 70% and just overwhelmed the learning atmosphere and we had to leave.  Unfortunately I think there are a lot of schools in DC that have well over 30%. [/quote]

I hear you. But before now everyone turns their back on schools that are above that threshold please be sure you recognize that the poverty rate is not computed using the same data. I presume you're looking at "% free and reduced lunch" as a measure of how many children are poor in a DC public school. That's not the same measure used to compute poverty density in neighborhoods as discussed by the link you provide. Maybe if one were to consider just "free lunch" that would be more comparable but that data is not available on school profiles.[/quote]

Interesting. I've been going off of the "low-income" numbers from http://www.greatschools.org/res/pdf/DC/DC_School_Chooser_2012-2013.pdf

I wonder how that's computed...[/quote]

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