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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is poor and moderate income that feeds into Churchill.  Townhouse communities.  Moderate single family.  Not every Churchill kid comes from a River Road mansion.  [/quote]

The percent of students on FARMS at Churchill is 5.3%. (So it's more diverse than Whitman, where the percent of students on FARMS is [u]<[/u]5.0%.) The percent of students on FARMS MCPS-wide is 35%. The percent of students on FARMS at Wheaton is 59%.  To qualify for FARMS, a household of four people must have an annual income of $43,568 or less.

(And yes, there is a poor community that feeds into Churchill -- Scotland, one of Montgomery County's historically black communities, founded by freed slaves. Scotland was there before Potomac.)[/quote]

Again, the cheapest available apartment that we found for Churchill was more than we were paying for a SFH in the DCC. Maybe no one showed us any properties in Scotland because of stereotypes?[/quote]

Again, the cheapest available apartment that you found for Churchill cost more than you were paying for a SFH in the DCC because the residents of Potomac do not allow apartments to get built. If there were more apartments in Potomac, they would be cheaper.

As for Scotland, here are two articles to read if you want to know more:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061700588.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/13/AR2007011301255.html

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