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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just so we have some understanding here, Randolph has been at around 70% for years. 
There has been no meaningful change to that school’s demographics in that time.
So if you think you are accomplishing anything by starting Drew at around 70%, the only thing you are accomplishing is guaranteeing it remains an underperforming school for the next couple of decades.[/quote]

Randolph is 92% fr/l in its boundary, but the actual school fr/l rate is in the 70s. If Drew were 70% fr/l in the boundary, what would its actual rate be? Can we guess? [/quote]

Unclear, because APS doesn't report statistics, like farms, by sending school in their transfer reports.

Randolph is a bit unique because it's a major source of native speakers at claremont; if half the school is native speakers, transfers to claremont are almost a quarter of that. We can only assume that Randolph's actual rate is lower because it sent 160 students to option schools in 2016-17. About half to claremont, 25 to montessori, the other 60 or so were scattered to various schools. People generally assume that it's UMC optioning out of high poverty neighborhood schools, but the fact that randolphs resident zone is 92% farms and it's actual rate is 20 pts lower is an indication that it's probably disproportionally poor kids who are opting out. Obviously, the native speaker/claremont connection is a big factor for that school.

Drew's zone sent far fewer kids to option schools (100 vs 160) and about 50 to claremont. But, it's not clear those are native speakers, poor kids or both. Nauck has a Latino population but it could be just as easily UMC anglos, whose departure would make Drew's 83% resident rate rise, not fall. [/quote]

This is making a strong argument for putting  all immersion programs in south Arlington, and potentially creating a third. Everyone was losing their mind on prior threads re: making Barcroft or Carlin Springs immersion. Maybe they both need to be immersion.[/quote]

Carlin Springs, for sure.  Barcroft is physically impractical due to the physical constraints of the bus loop/lack of parking/tight fit nestled among residences.  I've see their current two buses try to maneuver out of there during morning drop-off....no way 7 or 8 buses would work - and there is no parking for all the people who would be driving for events, etc.  I don't believe we can support a third separate immersion program right now - unless all three are comfortably under-crowded, which would not be fair to the remaining neighborhood schools.  But I do think the Key program should be moved to ATS.  That's still close to a large Spanish-speaking population as well as more affluent north arlington families, and it is more "accessible" in regards to buses and parking.[/quote]

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