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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question--what is so bad about JH and good about Maury? I live in Alexandria City and haven't heard much about it and based on this board, it seems JH is zoned for poorer residents (thought not sure how this is possible with real estate values being what they are) and Maury is zoned for richer people? Is that the big difference?[/quote]

As of last spring, these were the percentages of K-5 students who were eligible for Free and Reduced Meals:

Jefferson Houston - 73%
Maury - 30%
Lyles-Crouch - 21%

Those three schools are located within a one-mile radius.

The Free and Reduced Meals demographic info used to be available on the ACPS website, but after these disparities were repeatedly brought to the school board's attention during the redistricting process last year, it's shockingly no longer posted there. [/quote]

It's not about wealth in 6 year olds. It's about the home environment and lack of resources and support that kids from low incomce families can expect to receive. Obviously this is not true across the board but by and large, kids who are eligible for FARMS have 1 working parent, possibly are ESOL, and have a host of other background characteristics that boil down to they don't receive help or support at home because the parents either can't or won't provide it, which puts the entire onus of this kids well being on the school. It's a tremendous resource drain when your entire student body is composed of these high needs at risk kids. It doesn't mean anything about them as individual people, but their background and home life means they are less prepared for general life success, let alone academic success. The school sometimes has to focus on meeting so many of their basic needs they can barely begin to focus on education.

For students this age, does wealth really matter? I don't get the snobbishness in regard to free lunches. [/quote][/quote]

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