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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]That's why I said.. "for the most part". There are outliers, but the trend is that low income kids seem to do better (per SAT scores) when the FARMs rate is around the 25% mark. I'm not sure what other measure you could use. If low income kids are taking SATs, then that's a sign that they want to go to college, which is great.

I did notice Poolesville. Wow, there are some super smart kids there[/quote]

Argh, the  document doesn't show any pattern or trend that low income kids do better per SAT at schools with low FARMS. I only pulled 10 schools -which even if these were the only examples are far more than a fluke outlier. The FARMS kids scores are all over the map but the trend appears to show that they do better in schools with higher FARMS not lower.

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Top 10 schools where FARMs had the highest scores:
Whitman 1715
Wootton  1659
Poolesville 1641
Damascus 1612
Watkins Mill 1534
QO 1512
Churchill 1518
WJ 1493
Clarksburg 1460
RM 1447

Of the top 10, only Watkins Mill has a FARMs rate about 50%, Clarksburg is at about 26.8%. The rest is below about 25%.

Here's what I stated... " the trend is that low income kids seem to do better (per SAT scores) when the FARMs rate is around the 25% mark. "... or lower I should add.

Here's what you stated... "the trend appears to show that they do better in schools with higher FARMS not lower".  The data doesn't support your assertion at all.

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https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/pdf/SATBOEMemo10614.pdf[/quote]

The new SAT has a scale of 400-1600 so guessing the data to which you're referring is out of date.[/quote]

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