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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The FARMs rate dropping at schools that had no boundary change OR drop in number of students just means people are afraid to report their income, or people were lying about being poor before. It’s the identical school population, with different paperwork.[/quote]

I think it’s more that the FARMS rates went up during Covid due to job losses/underemployment in sectors hit hard by COVID policies. The FARMS rate is a lagging indicator since a family is probably using their previous year’s tax returns. So when they re-qualified for August 2024, they were using their income info from 2023, probably the last year that Covid stuff was coming into the equation. Our school (ES) FARMS rate went from 27% to 21%, which I think is roughly where we were in 2019 before Covid.

I do think maybe there was some “encouragement” for families to qualify for free/reduced meals the last few years as well, and some people always game the system by not necessarily including all income or saying they are “single” when they’re really living with relatives. [/quote]

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