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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington will never be Alexandria ized. All Alexandria schools have high percentages of poverty. With the exception of buckingham, north Arlington will never have high or even moderate percentages of poor kids. South Arlington as a result will always be less expensive by far. [/quote]

Are you joking? Look at the frl stats for south Arlington schools. Most at or above 50 percent, including Wakefield high school.[/quote]

I think PP means that unlike Alexandria, not all schools in Arlington are high poverty. I think, but correct me if I am wrong, but almost all Alexandria schools have high poverty. So, people live there regardless of schools because they all struggle. Arlington, in contrast, only has poor schools in the south. South Arlington will always be cheaper than North Arlington because you can live in the community and chose to avoid  high poverty schools. [/quote]

And my point was that people live in SA and pay 800k for small houses there despite the schools. The fact that we’re talking past each other only demonstrates the huge difference between North and South. Every year CB and APAH adds hundreds more high poverty families to the system, via units that will supply such students in perpetuity.  That means the FRL rates can only ever go up—unless you think somehow several 40 story market rate condos are built that a middle class family would actually choose to live in. The disparity between north and south is getting worse, not better, and school statistics show it. Just wait for the boundary discussion of a 4th high school. It will make everything up to now pale in comparison, but will maybe finally cause a public discussion about the how much subsidized housing SA really needs or should have.[/quote]

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