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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No surprise that people don’t want their kids moved, especially when there is no “problem” to be solved. Moving for the sake of it is nonsensical and disrupts kids academically and socially. [/quote]
According to VDOE, FCPS is now 40% FARMs. Boundary changes won’t fix the problems of poverty but they may hide the results.

Fairfax is becoming a poorer urban area with pockets of “gated” rich communities.

This is the natural progression of urbanization in a growing metro area.[/quote]

The VDOE statistics aren't accurate, or at least they don't measure FARMS like FCPS does.

FCPS reported Justice HS as 51% FARMS as of June 2025.  VDOE reports that 2295 students are "disadvantaged," and 64 are not.

As between the two, I place more reliance on the FCPS statistics. 
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FCPS stated it was 36% last fall. And there is some anomaly in the data for 24-25 with large decreases. 40 seems reasonable.[/quote]

No, it sounds inaccurate.  [/quote]
As FCPS FARMs rates have doubled in the last 15 years and [b]continue to climb[/b], you can take solace in knowing VDOE is off 4%[/quote]

Except that's not always the case.  Two-year changes in FARMS rates are mostly declines:

Lewis -17.28%
Mount Vernon -12.97%
Falls Church -11.44%
Annandale -7.83%
Centreville - 6.13%
Herndon -5.85%
Justice -5.71%
Edison -4.78%
West Potomac -4.58%
South County -3.09%
West Springfield -2.90%
Hayfield -2.67%
Madison -2.44%
Robinson -2.44%
Chantilly -2.09%
Marshall -1.78%
Westfield -1.66%
South Lakes -1.46%
Fairfax - 1.25%
Woodson -0.93%
Lake Braddock -0.47%
Oakton -0.34%
McLean -0.14%
Langley +0.71%
TJ +2.44%[/quote]
And that’s the anomaly. Vs two decades of upward trajectory.

And if this thread is any indication, FCPS information may not be entirely reliable.

VDOE says 40% FARMs. FCPS is a poor school district now.[/quote]

VDOE under Youngkin can’t even tie its shoes.

In any event the premise that FCPS is proposing to change boundaries to mask poverty doesn’t align with the Thru proposals to date.  [/quote]

Don't the online stare stats lag 1 year behind the FCPS stats?  They always have lagged in the past, perhaps by months, particularly over the summer, when both the state and FCPS are updating their stats.

FCPS is likely to drop again this year.

WTOP is currently running an article about Arlington losing Title I status this year at some schools.  The school profiled in the article, Abdingdon, has dropped from 29% FARMS last year to 20% FARMS by April, a drop of almost 10% in one year.  That is a very significant drop in just one school year.  I would not be surprised if once the doors open in August, the FARMS rate there and at similar schools has dropped to the upper or mid teens, coupled with a notable enrollment drop as well.

It is very probable that FCPS is going to experience very similar year to year drops in FARMS at several schools between this year and last year.

https://wtop.com/arlington/2025/07/arlington-parents-concerned-about-elementary-school-losing-title-i-status/[/quote]

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