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This is the first time these numbers have been reported since 2019, so we are seeing the impact of the school moves, pandemic changes, etc. Barrett, Barcroft, and Drew are all significantly higher.

BARRETT	                74.91%
RANDOLPH	        74.88%
BARCROFT	        74.84%
CARLIN SPRINGS	74.82%
DREW               	74.78%
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The reason these schools are so different the previous years is because they actually stopped counting FRL kids at these schools. They are part of the program where ALL kids get free lunch and if you actually try to apply online you can not apply for these schools. seeing how close these numbers are to each other I am guess that they take an average based on the number of students to be roughly around 75%. 
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I can see how the free-lunch-for-all makes sense; but taking an average isn't a good way to try to reflect the real FRL at each school. Estimates should at least be more reflective of the levels relative to each other pre-COVID when they were still counting.  It's really not likely that each of these schools is 74%.[/quote]

Does APS just think it looks better to have 5 schools with extremely high FRL% rather than 3?[/quote]

Or maybe APS wanted to keep kids from going hungry at more needy schools? If the trade off is between feeding kids and getting better data, I personally would choose to feed kids. [/quote]

I have no problem with feeding kids for free. And my comment above does not suggest otherwise.  My issue is with accurately reflecting the poverty level at each school.  [/quote]

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