I also control for the characteristics of the school, including total enrollment, pupil - to - teacher ratio, racial composition, percentage
of students eligible for free lunch, and percentage of returning students.
Prince William officials said that although 90 to 95 percent of
students eligible for free lunches eat every day, 85 percent or fewer of those who qualify for the reduced price eat a school lunch.
The selective vocational high schools, those that skim the best students from a county's high schools, also have some of the lowest percentages
of students eligible for Free lunch and high mean SAT scores.
Examining the relationship between the percentage of English Learners enrolled in bilingual education in a school and test scores for English Learners, taking into account differences in schools» pre-Prop 227 test scores and the percentage of schools»
students eligible for free lunch, reveals another indicator of Prop 227's effect on achievement.
For this analysis, school characteristics taken into account include national percentile test rank, the proportion of
students eligible for a free lunch, whether the school is secular or religious, and the local education authority in which it is located.
A decline of 10 national percentile points on a school's test performance in the year before inspection is associated with a 3 percentage point rise in the likelihood of being rated fail, taking into account the proportion of
students eligible for free lunch, as well as the local authority in which the school is located.
Different districts choose different strategies: according to NCES Public School Universe data, thousands of Title I schools nationally have fewer than a third of
their students eligible for free lunch, while at the same time thousands of non-Title I schools have over half their students eligible.
If I use only the percentage of
students eligible for FREE lunch, then the student characteristics from charter high schools would constitute an «AB» demographic profile: Less poor than students in public high schools located in an average «A» community and a little more poor than students in public high schools located in an average «B» community.
For example, in SAT Math, charter high schools that serve student populations with 60 % or less of
the students eligible for Free lunch -LRB-.60 FRpct), underperform the majority of public high schools with similar percentages of students eligible for Free lunch located in New Jersey's poorest communities — the «A» and «B» DFGs (Blue & Red circles).
Readers will notice that the J, I, & H districts have the lowest percentages of
students eligible for Free lunch and the highest SAT scores on average, whereas the A, B, & CD districts have the highest percentage of students eligible for Free lunch and lower mean SAT scores.