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And while it may be a great program, it is t anywhere near the largest school but consumes the most number of buses (even of the all the option schools). It needs to go in this current environment. Or at a minimum be debated. This whole thing APS is doing is a farce.  They claim they are looking at everything yet won’t take a hard look at the value of the option programs. Bunch of wimps. [/quote]

Yeah! If you're a poor kid sucking up vital APS resources, you only deserve to go to a school that you've been redlined to and you can walk there with all of your poor neighbors, even if that means your mom loses a half hour of wages to escort you there!!!!! MAGA

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If the kids who were transferring there from overcrowded schools were all ED, I might feel differently, but the families I know from South Arlington who transferred weren't -- they didn't like their neighborhood schools but weren't willing to pay to move because that would have but into their vacation budgets.

Does APS collect long-term data on ATS graduates? I don't care what someone's elementary SOLs are. I want to know if they outperformed other members of their demographic by the end of high school (because the ones I know didn't).[/quote]

ATS has a 26.3% FARMS rate. That tends to suggests that it's not all affluent families who don't like their neighborhood schools.[/quote]

It’s actually 19%, but honestly we knew a lot of people who quailify for FARMs that made professional money ($80k) but in Arlington is below the threshold for affordable housing and reduced lunch.  You have one parent work, one SAH, have affordable housing in part of town with mediocre schools, and win this lottery so you don’t end up moving to Fairfax or getting a second job. See the same thing happen with many grad students with kids...

https://housing.arlingtonva.us/income-rent-limits/[/quote]

You are wrong about both of those: FARMS rate at ATS - GS data is always old, so it’s not accurate anymore, PP was correct about 26.3%, and your income  a family will not be FARMS eligible with 80K (!) - it’s 30K to 45K or less;  tells us how well you know these “lots of people who qualify for FARMS”.
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