WTH? Why is THAT important???
“Subsidized Lunches”
It’s somewhat an indication of the number of students from low income families. Thus, in spite of “these people” the school excels.
Interpreted another way, money is not always the solution!
To challenge the claim that the schools rank high because they do not have any poor students.
This whole list is irrelevant. They’re not even looking at scores on standardized tests. All they’re looking at is:
1) what percentage of students take AP classes/exams
2) divided by how many people are in a class
3) and then looking at how poor they are.
In other words, just how much a school challenges its students to take advanced course work.
Taking advanced level coursework is good, but so is one’s performance, which is not even examined here. So they’re not really stressing results here, just effort—if coerced effort.