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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So that means all of these schools would have a lower overall FARMS rate with no transfers, correct? I had no idea the transfer rate was so high. That's another problem with drawing boundaries.[/quote]

That's why the way Staff is calculating FRL in the boundary change proposal is a problem.  It's "projecting" a lower FRL than will actually be in the schools.  Staff is accounting for residential developments that will open in the 2019-20 timeframe; but they are not projecting a FRL associated with those additional students.  When they KNOW the development is a CAF - and they have an estimated # of students to be generated by that CAF - they should be counting them as FRL for the "new boundary FRL" estimate.[/quote]

Please note that they calculate 53 actual students from Gilliam Place in the Barcroft PU 37050, but 0 additional students who qualify for fr/l. In the Abingdon PU 36021, by my estimate, based on the number of children generated by similarly sized units at Arlington Mill, they should be calculating 108 students when it opens, and all 108 of those students will qualify for fr/l (they have calculated 103 students by 2021 for capacity, yet 0 for demographic projections). Any students who live in CAFs will qualify for fr/l. That is a known number and should be added into any calculation or projection for both capacity and demographics. That way we're not all "surprised" when the actual fr/l rate ends up well beyond what was predicted. [/quote]

File under, "just how stupid do they think we are?"[/quote]

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