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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Drew got 55% poors. Oh hell nah am I getting rezoned drew. [/quote]

You realize if they rezone a bunch of affluent Henry families to Drew it won't be 55% poor anymore.  [/quote]

50% for fall 2019 would be an optimistic target. Drew's current rate is a little over 50, but the student body is mostly montessori. The graded program is probably up near 70, and that's what the "new Drew" will start with. So it will be important that the students who are rezoned to Drew are not disproportionately poor or the rate will skyrocket.[/quote]

Current neighborhood program is about 200 kids.  Even if those 200 are 100% FRL, as a proportion of a full Drew school at 600 students (if not more), that's only 1/3 or 33% FRL.
That leaves a lot of space for more low-income before the school reaches an undesirable over 40%.  Yes, APS needs to be cognizant of who they redistrict to Drew; but it's not like the guaranteed starting point is 60%.  I hope Staff does a good job of showing the stats for the various boundary possibilities because if the zoned boundary is in the 40% range, I think a lot more MC families will stick around and that will only lead to even better things for Drew in the coming years.

But, APS can easily screw it up.  Actually, Staff does a pretty good job trying to balance the various factors - the SB is who will screw it up.[/quote]

If there are 600 total students and Drew has a farms rate of 50%, that means that 300 kids are disadvantaged. If all 200 of the graded program is ED, then 100 of the Montessori kids are. In this exagerated scenario, the graded program farms rate is 100% and the Montessori rate is 25%. So let's be more realistic and suppose that 80 percent, or 160 of the graded kids are ED. That means that about 140 of the Montessori kids are, or 35%.

So - in order to keep a farms rate of 60%, no more than about a third of the students being rezoned to Drew could be ED. [/quote]

Professional working couples are not going to let their kids get rezoned to school with Farms over 50%, let alone 60-70%. If they cant stop it, they will go private or move. Walkability, diversity, IB and all the other stuff are a side show when over half the kids in the class come from poor families. Educated professionals have their Limits. Drew will become 100% poor. 
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Look, professional working couples already send their kids to schools that are at or near 60%, otherwise Barrett, Barcroft, and Campbell would be 100% fr/l. And Henry and Oakridge and Hoffman-Boston and Abingdon never would've gone under 50%. The PP was pointing out how unlikely it is that the fr/l rate will be above 60%. It probably won't even be above 50%. So save your drama, and I guess your money if you think you need to move or go private. [/quote]

All of the rezoned families wont move or go private. But I wont be surprised if a majority of them do (assuming we cant stop it). The examples you cite are not relatively wealthy kids being rezoned from a low farms school into a high farms school. Do you think if 20% of Jamestown was rezoned to Drew, all of those families would simply accept that fate for their kids. We are not paying high cost of living in NA only to send our kids to what is now essentially a ghetto school.

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