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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
PP, Richard Montgomery is not a &quot;low income&quot; school - get your facts straight.

lol.. to Wootton parents we are because they have &lt; 5% FARMs and RM has around 20%. Even if Wootton had 5%, that's a 4x increase. If they have 3%, that's almost a 7x increase. That's a lot. The funny thing is, there are many homes in the RM cluster that are more expensive than homes in the Wootton cluster. But, yes, there is Twinbrook which has the highest FARMs rate in the cluster.[/quote]

We're in Wootton and never thought of RM as low income. We would have bought in Fallsgrove but didn't like how the houses were so big and lot was so small- too many huge windows looking right into your neighbors huge windows.

You could move Twinbrook into Wootton but since RM is only 20% FARMS don't the Twinbrook students already have the advantage of being at a high income school? RM would go from 20-5 and Wootton would go from 5-20. What would this achieve other than swapping the FARMS ratio between Wootton and RM? [/quote]
I don't know think Twinbrook by itself accounts for 15% of RM FARMS rate.

TB accounts for close to 50% of all the ESs FARMs rate.  So if you take TB out, RM FARMs rate would still be above 5%.

It's hard to really gauge because RM FARMs rate doesn't equate to the total FARMs rate of all the ESs since the ESs have 6 grade and RM  only has 4.  If you add up all the FARMS of all the ES, it's about 30% of the population. But RM FARMs rate is about 20%; JW is about 23%.

More than likely, CG (only 13% FARMs), which is part of RM would be rezoned to Crown. So, even with TB moving to Wootton, the FARMs rate at RM could actually stay about the same.  RP and Beall combined have a FARMs rate of about 23%.  Obviously some of this will be off since Bayard has openend, but it won't be that far off.

But I agree about the homes in FG.  I feel the same way.[/quote]

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