Sentences with phrase «for free or reduced lunch»

Students at Boys and Girls High School (Brooklyn Renewal School) are predominately Black or African American and «economically disadvantaged,» meaning they qualify for free or reduced lunch (Reportcard Comparison — Boys and Girls High School, 2017).
72 % of its students are from low - income backgrounds and qualify for free or reduced lunch and breakfast (St. Richard School, 2015).
Ninety percent of its 580 students are eligible for free or reduced lunch.
Nearly 100 percent of our scholars qualify for free or reduced lunch and live in some of the most impoverished areas of these two urban centers.
New York's charter school law requires that SED and SUNY set targets for enrolling and retaining students with disabilities, English Language Learners, and students who are eligible for free or reduced lunch at rates that are «comparable» to those of the local school district or city school district.
Simpson Central School, Pinola, MS.. This rural school of about 500 students is a Title 1 school serving 20 small surrounding communities, with over 75 % eligibility for free or reduced lunch, and a student population of 52 % Caucasian and 48 % African American.
The now K - 12 schools serve over 900 students, 86 percent who qualify for free or reduced lunch, 93 % who identify as Hispanic or Latino, and over 55 % who are English Language learners — percentages higher than those of the geographic district.
KIPP operates a network of 82 charters in 19 states, and according to its Web site more than 80 percent of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Nearly 80 % of the students at the Parchester school are eligible for free or reduced lunch.
There are few jobs in Parke County, and about three - quarters of students in Rockville qualify for free or reduced lunch — nearly twice as many as five years ago.
In order to estimate the contribution of student SES (calculated as the percentage of students in a school eligible for free or reduced lunch) to relationships described in the path model between the three teacher variables and student achievement, we computed three hierarchical regressions.
Poor kids do worse on average, with only 20 % of children who are eligible for free or reduced lunch reading proficiently.
Nearly 39,000 students are enrolled in RISD schools and over 54 % qualify for free or reduced lunch.
57 % of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
In Michigan, nearly 75 percent of charter school students are eligible for a free or reduced lunch, while 48 percent of traditional public school students are eligible for the subsidy, according to data from the Michigan Department of Education.
That includes students of color, including a significant Latino population, and many students who qualify for free or reduced lunch.
And I'd like to point out that Dickinson's student population is 70 percent minority and 75 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
More than half (or 54 %) of students who qualify for free or reduced lunch in Massachusetts public schools do not eat school breakfast on a given school day, ranking Massachusetts as the 43rd state in low income student school breakfast participation.
All this with a group of students that predominantly live in poverty (90 % qualify for free or reduced lunch) and many of whom are non native English speakers (70 % and English language learners).
In a city in which almost three - fourths of public school students are eligible for free or reduced lunch, we all can learn a lot from these schools.
During this period, the school had at least half of its students eligible for free or reduced lunch and a student mobility rate of approximately 40 %.
He goes to school with children who have parents that don't qualify for free or reduced lunch, however, this, in most cases, means that they are families who make enough to get by and NOT that they truly «less poor» as you call them.
97 % of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and 70 % speak English as a second language.
In Weston, 1.3 percent of the children are eligible for free or reduced lunch compared to 98.4 percent in Bridgeport
In the summer of 2015, South Berwyn, Illinois, a district where 100 % of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch and 90 % are English language learners, defied the odds and not only avoided summer slide but experienced a significant increase in reading proficiency.
Over 92 % of students are from the Rochester City School District with the remaining students coming from suburban Monroe County, 86 % of students qualify for free or reduced lunch and approximately 16 % of students qualify for special education services.
Applications for free or reduced lunch programs can be found at each school or at applyforlunch.com.
Valor was the only school in MNPS to achieve «5 out of 5» in Achievement and Growth in all Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) subjects, and in math and science, our scholars received the highest scores among all schools in the state with more than 40 % of students qualifying for Free or Reduced Lunch.
Additionally, 50 % of our scholars qualify for Free or Reduced Lunch.
Nearly 70 percent of its students are poor enough to qualify for free or reduced lunch.
The program has a 10 percent window of families that must pay a monthly tuition fee, because they don't meet the eligibility requirements — which, as in Dallas ISD's program, stipulate eligible four year - olds must have limited English proficiency, qualify for free or reduced lunch, be homeless or in foster care, and / or have a parent active in the military, as Breitbart Texas reported.
93 % of our students qualify for free or reduced lunch and approximately 16 % of our students qualified for special education services in the fall of 2014.
When we look at the facts, Newark public charter schools are successfully educating historically underserved student populations — over 80 percent of Newark public charter school students are African American and over 80 percent are eligible for free or reduced lunch.
Rather than giving schools more money based on the number of students who qualify for free or reduced lunch, as in the past, complexity money will be awarded based on children whose families qualify for one of three federal low - income services — foster care, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (food stamps) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
More than 90 percent of students are minorities, and 86 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Almost every student qualifies for free or reduced lunch in each of Jackson's two charter schools, as is common throughout the country.
The school is classified as Title I and 90 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Optional school students who qualify for free or reduced lunch are eligible to receive an MTA Bus pass from MNPS.
After all, at KIPP Infinity Middle School 99 % of students are Black or Hispanic, 85 % qualify for free or reduced lunch (a measure of poverty), and 25 % of students have disabilities.
About 70 percent of students in the district qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Given the facts that student needs are rising — poverty rates across Wisconsin have been rapidly increasing, with about 40 percent of schoolchildren now eligible for free or reduced lunch — while financial support for schools at both the state and federal level is falling, they have a tall order in front of them.
The school, whose students are all African - American and all qualify for the free or reduced lunch program, had been on probation for student performance when Hanks took over.
With 87 % of the student body qualifying for free or reduced lunch, students illuminate the classroom with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, but each share in the educational environment that fosters safety and the promise for growth.
As a Title I School, 78 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and many have limited access to healthy meals at home.
Just under 60 percent of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch, an annual income threshold that extends up to $ 45,000 for a family of four.
At DC Public Schools (another district that has taken on significant reforms in recent years) while overall results are slightly higher than NPS, students at NPS who qualify for free or reduced lunch (FRL) drastically outperform those at DCPS
Despite numerous challenges (a high poverty rate with 67 % of Smith Street students eligible for free or reduced lunch), Smith Street School (SSS) is flourishing.
During this time, the school has had half of its students eligible for free or reduced lunch, and its mobility rate among students has been approximately 40 %.
With a highly diverse student population predominantly comprised of Asian, Hispanic and African - Americans, 86 % of whom qualify for free or reduced lunch, CPA has developed a school community that best exemplifies the concept of rigor and compassion.
We identified candidate schools within the three states by examining three years of state testing data6 for schools with at least 50 % of the student population eligible for free or reduced lunch.
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