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[quote=Anonymous]If you want facts, you can look up FARMS rates at MoCo high schools here:  http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04406.pdf.  Here are stats for some of the &quot;richest&quot; MoCo high schools mentioned earlier:

BCC 11% FARMS, 9.3% special ed,
Walter Johnson 7.8% FARMS, 11.7% special ed
Churchill &lt;5% FARMs, 11.2% special ed
Whitman &lt;5% FARMs, 11.9% special ed
Richard Montgomery   20.6% FARMS, 7.7% special ed
Wootton 5.5% FARMs, 7.5 special ed
(You don't want to even ask about the downcounty schools, trust me)

Another important fact to keep in mind: the FARMS income cutoff is LOW. This source (http://febp.newamerica.net/background-analysis/federal-school-nutrition-programs) says the federal subsidized lunch program cutoff is 130% of the poverty line, or [b]$21,000 for a family of four. [/b]

So between FARMS and special ed programs, maybe 13-20% of kids at the &quot;richest&quot; public high schools we've been discussing are either (a) very poor or (b) on special ed. And certainly many more kids in these 6 &quot;richest&quot; public high schools have family incomes just above $21,000 but below $50,000.

It's truly difficult to understand how you could expect identical percents of a Sidwell graduating class, and a graduating class at one of these &quot;richest&quot; MoCo high schools, to be applying to the same Ivy League Colleges. Given that 10-30% kids in even the &quot;richest&quot; MoCo high schools live in families with less than $21,000 income, or are in special ed, and many more will have incomes not much above $21,000.
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