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If you look at the Westland Middle School stats.  FARMS - 12.6 percent, blacks are 10.6 percent of the student population, black FARMS are 5.3, hispanics are 15.8 of the student population and hispanic FARMS are 5.9.   I don't see that high of a correlation between race and poverty rate at Westland.  Half or a third are not a majority, looking at the feeder schools the same data holds.

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There's not much correlation between race/ethnicity and poverty at Westland because there's not much poverty at Westland to begin with. But there is correlation. Half of the black students at Westland qualify for FARMS. Over one third of Hispanic students at Westland qualify for FARMS. Basically no white or Asian students at Westland qualify for FARMS. Not all black or Hispanic students at Westland are poor, but all of the poor students at Westland are black or Hispanic. [/quote]

That is because they are shipped from silver spring, you don't live near westland if you're poor. There are hardly any Black kids or non-embassy Hispanic outside of the concentration of Apartments around RHES.  If RHES wants a neighborhood school so bad send them to the downcounty consortium and let them pick where they go. .  [/quote]

But BCC is by far the closest HS to RHES (3.3 miles vs. 5.3 to Einstein) and is, in fact closer to BCC than Westmoreland Hills (3.5 miles)[/quote]

it is in a different town? Why not stick to your own?[/quote]

And we are talking about the middle school anyway. RHES couldn't be any farther from Westland without being upcounty. [/quote]

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