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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We've established that a couple hundred non ed students transfer out, a somewhat smaller number, less than 200, transfer in. There are 1000 non ed students at Wakefield. That means something like 800 non ed kids are zoned for Wakefield and go there. We don't know their personal educational histories, so we can't for sure say where they were living or where they were going to school before this point, so on those narrow terms, no, I can't prove it. but it's reasonable to think that most non ed students at Wakefield went to Oakridge, Henry, and the option schools because non-ed students are a minority at most other SA neighborhood schools.

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What's your response to the poster at 11:40?[/quote]

It's an interesting analysis but it's missing carlin springs and I think it puts too much emphasis on an arbitrary breakpoint, title i status. Claremont is nearly title 1, Campbell is and so is Drew. So it's actually eliminating from the analysis two of the three most popular option schools for SA students. These schools are often preferable to parents in schools with farms rates at or above 70. There a huge difference between half of a school being disadvantaged and nearly all of it being so.[/quote]

I'm unclear what your point is on the Claremont, Campbell and Drew - should transfers to those schools have been backed out of the analysis or not? Campbell and Drew were included in the transfer adjustment since they are Title I, Claremont was not. [/quote]

My point is that transferring from one title 1 school to another is in fact a way of avoiding poverty, when the farms percentage is like 75% at Randolph and 50 percent at Drew. [/quote]

So what about 13:!5? Why should we believe you that all of those families come back to the neighborhood for high school instead of going to HB Woodlawn or IB at W-L? A lot of non-ED students transfer from Wakefield to both of those schools each year.[/quote]

Not PP, but HB draws primarily from Yorktown. There are 145 transfers to HB from the Wakefiled zone. I have no idea how many of those students attended an option program, but clearly it's not all of them. Anecdotally, there have been no (successful) applicants to HB from the option ES my kid attends the last 2 years (they announce where students are going the following year). I have no idea if any applied and were accepted, but none enrolled.

Also, I think there is a difference at the HS level for a lot of people, because the main subject areas/classes are based on academic performance levels. This doesn't happen at ES, so it's not a surprise to me that parents would be fine with a high poverty HS (50%) with a significant cohort of UMC kids where their kids have access to rigorous courses and a wide variety of extracurricular activities, but not okay with those same kids attending a high poverty ES (80%) where the remaining 20% of kids are not UMC, but those who are living just barely above the poverty line and there is no PTA or enrichment outside of school for non-disadvantaged kids. Different experiences all together. The option schools have significant numbers of very poor kids, but also significant numbers of rather well-off kids, more like Wakefield than not. All this to say, I do not believe there is evidence that most parents who prefer option ES programs do not consider Wakefiled a viable option for HS. But I'm sure that not all do. They are just as likely to move, though, as transfer. [/quote]

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