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[quote=Anonymous]My experience with a GS4 (later upgraded to GS6) elementary school was pretty good. The school is 70% Latino and - you guessed it- 70% farms.
But- we had lucked out with the principal, who is very good and his kids are at the same school and my kid was in the same classroom with his kid.
My child was able to benefit from several programs originally targeting disadvantaged kids but since the school is considered disadvantaged overall, he could be part of it. And he was able to take full advantage of those, coming from a middle class educated family. And no, he didn't take up anybidy's spot, it was either for the whole school or there were openings as many parents couldn't be bothered to enroll their kids.
I am also able to stand out as one of the most active parents at school (again, since so many parents  simply can't be bothered). At the same time, school requests for donations were very reasonable- and it didn't really compromise the quality of facilities or instruction as title 1 money came in. 
There is a small number of motivated students in my son's grade so that taken care of so to speak. And there is a number of mc and umc families at the school, mostly people who care about equality and oppose self segregation, the dreamers, so to speak.
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