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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]@1040- your assumptions on what a neighborhood Drew FARMS rate will be are incorrect.
If you look at the transfer report- https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Transfer-Report-2016-17.pdf
Drew has 78 kids who are economically disadvantaged transferring in for Montessori.  
It has 364 kids who are FARMS.   That means that 80% of the current FARMS kids are neighborhood kids.

Also - the 2/3 spots only applies to preschool, not elementary.  And those 2/3 spots are reserved for people whose income for a family of 4 is below 88,240.  In order to be FARMS- a family of 4 has to make less than 45,000.   https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/04/10/2017-07043/child-nutrition-programs-income-eligibility-guidelines
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I figured I had to be doing something wrong on that point. But some of those neighborhood FARMS kids must be Montessori kids as well. Drew doesn't have 286 kids in the neighborhood program in total. Whether they will go with the Montessori or stay put, who knows.[/quote]

Neither of you have factored in the preschool kids who receive fr/l to your calculations.

Current Drew Montessori parent, can you tell me how many VPI classrooms and how many Pre-K Montessori classrooms there are in the building. Those kids are all counted in for fr/l percentages (all the VPI kids would qualify, as would a number of the Pre-K Montessori kids). [/quote]

I don't have those numbers and don't know anything about VPI, sorry. All I know is the rough split btwn Montessori and traditional. The transfer report appears to treat MN transfers differently from VPI in that only VPI age 4 on entry are included but I thought VPI started at age 3? I find it hard to read, though. I also think it says in the key that students from within school boundaries are not counted as transfers in the report.[/quote]

VPI is only 4-year-olds, they would all qualify for fr/l. I found the info. There are two VPI classrooms at Drew this year, 31 students. And four Pre-K classrooms, 96 students. All the Montessori Pre-K kids will be moved out of the Drew building when it becomes a neighborhood school. Not sure about VPI.

Based on the transfer report, it looks like there are 533 students in K-5. Of those 533, 307 are economically disadvantaged. Of those economically disadvantaged students, only 183 are NOT transfers. But what we don't know is how many of those economically disadvantaged students are in Montessori yet live within the current Drew boundary, and will they stay at Drew when it's a neighborhood school or will they follow Montessori to Henry?

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