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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, question on your approach. We have FARMS data for enrolled students and for resident students, but for purposes of netting the two, isn't the calculation confounded by the number of transfers into a school? In other words, if Abingdon has 419 resident FARMs students and 315 enrolled FARMs students, isn't the 315 figure inclusive of resident FARMs plus transfer-in FARMs, such that you can't conclude that the difference of 104 is the number of resident FARMs kids transferring out?

Still using Abingdon, looks like 14 kids transfer in. If those are all FARMs kids, which we don't have data on, then only 301 enrolled FARMs kids come from Abingdon's resident borders and, in turn, there are 118 FARMs transfers from Abingdon.

Is that right? I'm starting to confuse myself.[/quote]

I don't think transfers in to neighborhood schools are going to make that much of a difference.  Abingdon had 14 total- of those it looks like 1/2 were administratively determined and the other 1/2 were residence changes.  To be a little pragmatic- its an awful lot of effort to have a child enrolled at a neighborhood school outside your neighborhood- you have to transport them, etc- and most people who are FARMS do not have the resources to do this.  
I am going to try and separate out preschool- I think that is throwing the data alot more.[/quote]

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