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The Sloped Playing Field

Quant Score Predictions

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Throwing School Money at Home Poverty

Throwing Charter Schools at Home Poverty

Charter Districts

8th Grade Chart

Districts Included

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156 2009 Average Assessed Home Value

27 AP Classes

49 Attendance Rate

2 Category

945 Demographic

60 Dropout Rate

164 Enrollment

212 Free Lunch%

117 Graduation Rate

5 Half/Full Pre-K

70 Households

104 In-School Suspension Rate

137 LSSR

40 MCAS 10 English

42 MCAS 10 Math

53 MCAS 10 Science

48 MCAS 5 English

56 MCAS 5 Science

39 MCAS 8 English

61 MCAS 8 Science

72 Median Household Income

114 Out-of-School Suspension Rate

162 Per-Capita Income

135 Per-Pupil Spending

162 Population

121 Quant Rank

7 Race

135 Rank

111 Reduced Lunch%

96 SAT Math

105 SAT Reading

110 SAT Writing

166 School

3 School Choice

126 Special Education%

50 Sports Teams

292 State Profile

52 Students per Teacher

166 Town

56 Unemployment%

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Description optional	Here is town per-capita income charted against the towns' schools sorted by Quant Score. The line isn't perfectly smooth, but it's a lot less jagged than most other factors, and it definitely slopes from wealth to poverty. This suggests strongly, if unsurprisingly, that money at home makes more difference than money at school.
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Here is town per-capita income charted against the towns' schools sorted by Quant Score. The line isn't perfectly smooth, but it's a lot less jagged than most other factors, and it definitely slopes from wealth to poverty. This suggests strongly, if unsurprisingly, that money at home makes more difference than money at school.

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