Free/Reduced Price Lunch Questions
1. What is being done to address free and reduced lunch percentages that exceed 40% on a classroom basis?
The system looks at the F&R percentage for the school first, then at the grade to see if a trend is being formed. Where the distance is not greater than acceptable, students may be moved to alleviate the high concentration. There are other actions including a review of the academic progress of the school, taken to evaluate the impact that the high concentration of high needs students could be having. Under some circumstances, when a move might create an excessive burden, other efforts to assist the school may be used instead.
2. Are there charts of distribution of students who are F&R per node available on line or hard copy? Likewise, ESL?
These charts are not available on line at this time. New charts will be developed within the next month to show the current year's data.
3. How true is the statement I overheard earlier this year? "Assigning major/most F&R lunch students to year round schools"
Some of the year round schools have a base population. These nodes assigned to the year round school are generally nodes with a high percentage of F&R students. By no means are most students who qualify for F&R lunch programs assigned to year round schools.