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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty sure Henry was over 40% when it was awarded a blue ribbon.[/quote]

Barely.  It was closer to 40 than 50.  It was just before they lost Title I status.[/quote]

Henry lost its title I status because UMC families packed into the zone. You can look at historical farms stats and see that the number of farms students has not really changed at all since 2011, when the school was 46%. It added over 100 non farms students since then. It's now at 32%. This kind of turnaround was possible because The apartments in the zone aren't more numerous than SFH. The same thing happened at Oakridge - farms unchanged, an increasing number of UMC children crowded the school and brought the farms rate down.

The lesson is clear: if low income housing dominates a particular schools zone, it will lead to high farms rates. Even a little out of balance the wrong way can have amplified effects: witness how virtually no one living in a SFH in Douglas park - a huge, picturesque neighborhood with large lots - send their kids to the  most walkable elementary school in the county. On the other hand, the right balance can attract UMC families and their resources in a way that can meaningfully improve the school, as was the case with Henry. Rather than focusing on changing the next year's farm rate to some arbitrary "good" or "fair" number, we should focus on creating more Henrys over a 5-10 year window and avoid at all costs creating another Randolph or carlin springs at Drew.

The best way to achieve this would be to balance high density low income housing with SFH/condos/town homes.

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So you are saying : Randolph is a lost cause. Please  just make sure Drew becomes the next Henry. Gee I wonder where you live...[/quote]

Nope. I'm saying create an environment that can attract UMC families to bring resources and balance to a school in the medium term. For Randolph to improve, Barcroft Apts needs to be zoned to at least three different schools so that parents in SFH will send their kids there instead of option schools. For Drew To be title I but not spiral up to a 70% farms rate, Oakridge needs to keep its low income housing; Nauck itself has enough already and even without the CAFs units near Drew it has the highest poverty rate of any census unit in the county, even Buckingham. It'll be title I by a large margin without any of the AH in Oakridge. The problem with creating segregated schools is not just that they are bad for everybody, it's that they create severe overcrowding in adjacent schools that aren't so disadvantaged. That crowding the  leads to lobbying and gnashing of teeth when rezoning happens. This is why Oakridge and Henry are so crowded. Because Randolph is so segregated. 
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I don’t disagree with you, but Breaking up Barcroft apts has been suggested several times on DCUM, and people lost their minds every time. They had a lot of great talking points about walkability. Funny. Walkability is always the winning argument when you want to keep what’s yours...[/quote]

Barcroft doesn't all go to the same school now. It's split between Randolph and Barcroft.[/quote]

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