Why is my school districts poverty estimate different than the neighboring school districts?
We expect to see differences between poverty rates for school districts within a county, even among those with similar demographic and economic profiles. Differences in sub-county poverty ratios are one reason why Congress directed the U.S. Department of Education to make fund allocations directly to school districts. Differences that exist among the SAIPE program’s school district poverty estimates within a county are based on federal tax return information for 2007 as well as income information from Census 2000. Return to top. • Why are the SAIPE program estimates not reflective of the current year? With its release of 2006 and 2007 SAIPE estimates in December 2008, the SAIPE program reduced the release lag in SAIPE program estimates by an additional year. The estimates are as current as feasible given the timescale of availability of the various survey and administrative data used. For example, the SAIPE program’s 2007 estimates utilized federal tax return data for 2006, which were
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