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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What qualifies as a high poverty school? My kid is at a 40 per cent farms school, and we haven’t had the level of issues discussed here. Some disruption, sure, but overall my kid is pretty happy and seems to be learning a lot. I quite like the teachers we’ve had so far and have been pretty impressed with how well they seem to know the kids and how much they care about them. We are early elementary and here in close in DMV. This thread has me worried that I’m missing something….[/quote]

When FCPS did their study they found that 20% and 40% where the two tipping points. Of course they followed it up with zero action. [/quote]

Tipping points for what? [/quote]

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Summary Finding: The study took both a graphical and a statistical approach to answering this question using SY 2011‐12 poverty and student achievement data.1 Graphs of school‐level pass rates (i.e., the percentage of students in the school above benchmarks on the reading or mathematics SOL tests) and school poverty indicated in general that as levels of school poverty increased, schools were less likely to meet academic performance expectations (i.e., schools were more likely to have SOL pass rates falling below expected levels).
And, almost all schools with poverty levels of 45 percent or higher were unable to reach expected pass rate levels in reading or math. Follow‐up statistical analyses found statistical evidence that two tipping points exist in FCPS. The reading data provided the most consistent findings as it indicated two tipping points occurring at 20 and 40‐45 percent school‐level poverty. Thus, FCPS schools with greater than 20 percent poverty are much less likely to meet performance expectations than those with less than 20 percent poverty. And, once poverty levels at a school reach 40 percent or more, FCPS schools are unlikely to meet expectations for school performance.
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https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/9DG4KP71B0DB/$file/fcps_tipping-point.pdf[/quote]

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