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Isn't FARMS  part of SES?

And of course I know nothing about an individual student' performance. But I do know their school's average performance. Without more data, I would naturally assume a neighborhood from a high-performing/low-performing school contains more high-performing/low-performing students.

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FARMs is a binary measure of household income - either you qualify for FARMs, or you don't. You could be $1 over the limit, you could be $1 million over the limit, you could be $1 under the limit, you could have a household income of $0, it's all the same.

And household income is only one aspect of socioeconomic status.

DCUM likes to use FARMs as a proxy measure of socioeconomic status, but it's not a good one.

Also, as with SES, here's what you know about an individual student's test scores when you know the average test scores of the school the individual student attends: nothing.[/quote]

“nothing” is a bit exaggerating, but you could say "not much".

That is exactly the reason why people have to use school average to make educated guesses. We don't know the individual performance, and if we want to have a feeling of how well these students perform, one way (other than giving them tests) would be to look at the performance of students in their current school. Is it accurate? No. But it does provide some information.
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