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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. I did this in part because every time wealth inequality comes up it is hard to compare schools to each other. FARMS just gives you the low end, not any indication of the high end. Looking at other data sources and proxies is problematic. Data sources often aren't closely tied to school boundaries, and it is hard to demonstrate you're not cherry picking data.

I double checked the logic and did some consistency checks with zip codes. The data seems to be accurate. But this isn't the median income for families of students- it includes young married couples and married retirees. Even for families with kids, it includes single-parent households and single-earner households. These will drive the median lower than whatever you might intuitively expect. And in some cases, people underestimate how many multi-family homes are in an area- you don't need a lot of space to offset expensive SFHs.[/quote]

If you're going off of zip code, then the consortium schools are going to be totally wrong since students don't necessarily end up at their neighborhood school. NEC wise, for example, Blake has the most enrollment, but has a smaller number of families than PB on this table. This only works for neighborhood schools, not magnet and consortium schools.[/quote]

Block groups don't capture that, either. They're just more fine-grained than zip codes.[/quote]

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