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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm kind of shocked they caved to the Henry families. Also surprised Alcova didnt get moved to Fleet.  It seems like the county always caters to certain neighborhoods.[/quote]

Without that neighborhood at Drew the farms rate will be over 80 percent, easily. That's why they didn't publish it in these documents. Itll be higher than carlin springs and they just don't care. Nauck wanted its own elementary and now APS is going to give it to them.[/quote]

Drew and Randolph are now the poorest schools in the system, and were JUST MADE SO! There is nothing inevitable about these boundaries. People drew them, not god. It is some shameful sh&t to purposely create schools where all but 2 or 3 kids in a classroom are on food stamps. It is pure cowardice and negligence.[/quote]

I know plenty of Randolph families who are not on food stamps. The 92% rate is confusing to me. Is that surely accurate?[/quote]

The detail is in the footnote, usually what we see for schools is the enrolled FARMS rate, what percentage of children actually attending the school are part of the program. What is reflected in that table is the resident FARMS rate, what percentage of elementary students in the zone are part of the program, even if they don't attend the neighborhood school. So that 92% has backed out families who transfer to Randolph from other schools, and includes students who live in the Randolph zone but attend school elsewhere. Randolph sends a lot of kids to option schools, and a disproportionate number of them probably get into the option schools via VPI, so Randolph is sending a lot of FARMS students who live in the zone elsewhere, meaning their enrolled FARMS rate is lower than their resident FARMS rate.[/quote]

DP. In other words, if every elem student in the Randolph zone stayed put, the FARMS rate would be 92%? But instead, many lower income transfer out via VPI and many higher income stay and attend Randolph? Sorry to be slow, just making sure I understand.

Is APS anticipating changes to the transfer-out rate or will that still happen? In other words, will the 92% be the real figure after the new lines are drawn and everyone starts in their new zone? Or will Randolph then drop down lower again.[/quote]

Yes, your understanding of the calculation is correct. I'm not sure why APS is presenting it this way (especially without also showing the enrolled FARMS rates for comparison), it's very confusing at first glance. I don't think they're expecting people will stop transferring out and the rate will go up to 92%, but maybe they're trying to be as transparent as possible given that they don't know yet how some of the changes (relocating Montessori, changing the option and transfer policy) will play out. Moving Montessori further away could mean fewer families send their kids there. Allowing North Arlington families equal lottery priority for Claremont and Campbell could crowd out some of the lottery transfers from Randolph. I don't know that it will be too big a change, though, because VPI students still have priority for the option schools over lottery.[/quote]

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