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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The number of FARMS students began increasing way before 2011. Please post the evidence that Starr and MCPS were focused on "white family retention" in the DCC between 2011-2014. Please post data demonstrating that there is an increase in white and minority students opting for private between the years of 2011 - 2017. Please post the data showing that there has been an increase in the number of private and parochial schools (for K and older) since 2011.

Your assertions are possible, but I do not believe you have any sort of data to back them up. [/quote]

I'm not the PP, but as long as we're talking about data, remember that the DCC includes several areas that have appreciated in the last five years and where demographics are changing. Everything along the Red Line (TPES, PBES, ESSES, SPES, Woodlin, FSES, OTES and therefore TPMS, SSMIS, and Sligo MS) is trending more middle class, partially because middle class families are being pushed out of the District.  [/quote]

By the way, OTES does not feed into any of the MS you listed. I am not sure which school FSES is or SPES.

From school at a glance data on mcps website http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/glance/

ESSES: 2011 FARMS- 59.7%; 2017 FARMS- 57.3%
PBES: 2011 FARMS- 30.3%; 2017 FARMS- 32%
Woodlin: 2011 FARMS- 21.8%; 2017 FARMS- 23.3%

SSIMS: 2011 FARMS- 43.4%; 2017 FARMS- 39.9%
Sligo: 2011 FARMS- 50.6%; 2017 FARMS- 43.5%
Takoma Park: 2011 FARMS- 20.7%; 2017 FARMS - 27.3%

Blair HS 2011 FARMS- 34.2%; 2017 FARMS- 36%
Einstein HS 2011 FARMS- 39.2%; 2017 FARMS- 42.2%
Northwood HS 2011 FARMS- 36.8%; 2017 FARMS- 49.8%

I've lived in the DCC for 25 years and sent my kids to RVES, NMMS, and Einstein. The data is interesting. I don't think it bares out that the schools you mentioned are gentrifying, maybe staying basically the same since 2011. White people moving in always seem to think they are gentrifying and the schools are getting "better". I sure thought that way when I bought my house for nothing in 1993. I never would have expected to be sending my younger kids to schools with higher esol and fARMS rates than my oldest. The reality is that despite astronomical SFH pricing increases it has not led to lower FARMS rates in schools. Here is the data for my assigned schools.

RVES- 2003 FARMS- 42.8%; 2011 FARMS- 46.5%; 2017 FARMS- 50.5%
NMMS- 2003 FARMS- 36.3%; 2011 FARMS- 53.7%; 2017 FARMS- 46.2%
Einstein- 2003 FARMS- 24.6%; 2011 FARMS- 39.2%; 2017 FARMS- 42.2%[/quote]

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