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It's a little frustrating that in order to attend DCI you must already win the charter lotteries for the feeder schools; it basically locks students out if they don't win early on. [b]Talk about the cycle of poverty....[/quote]
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You mean like Stokes, which is 69% free and reduced meal students?  Or DC Bilingual, which is 85%?

The other schools have a higher percentage of middle and higher income families, yes, but none of them are below 30% FARM.  There is this pernicious idea that these schools are somehow only for middle class families.  They may have a higher demand from middle class families than other schools, so their pool of lottery applicants is more heavily tilted in that direction.  But that doesn't mean they don't have major appeal for lower income families also. 
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Not true.  LAMB is well below 30%.  Yu Ying is below 20%.[/quote]

You are right, I wrote that without checking them all, it was an assumption.  Here are the free and reduced meals percentages (2012-13 school year):

DC Bilingual- 85.5% 339 students
Stokes- 68.7%  335 students
Mundo Verde- 33.3% 237 students
LAMB- 29.7% 273 students
Yu Ying- 16.6% 439 students

Those are from the PCSB Performance Reports from last fall, which captures data from the 2012-13 school year.  New reports will be out this fall for 2013-14.  Combining them all, the overall free and reduced meal percentage is:

46.77%

These charters may have a lower FARM rate than DC as a whole, but they seem to me to be among the only schools in the city which are truly able to mix lower income and high income families.  The vast majority of other schools in the city are vast majority poor, with a small slug up in Ward 3 that are vast majority middle and high income.  I don't understand why people think it's a bad thing to have schools which are achieving this kind of mix.
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As a parent at one of those schools I totally agree.  We feel so lucky to have such race, class and ethnic diversity in one school.  My middle and high schools were diverse in a similar way and even with going on to top 15 college and law school, high school remains my richest education because of the diversity.[/quote]

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