While this has been published before, it is so startling that I thought it deserved a post all by itself.
As stated before, a Friend of McHenry County Blog put this data together from an official state education spreadsheet.
| McHenry County School Districts 2016 | |||
| Percent Low Income | |||
| DISTRICT | Percent Low Income | ||
| Nippersink Grade Sch 2 | 19.8 | ||
| Fox River Grove Grade Sch 3 | 17.0 | ||
| McHenry Grade Sch 15 | 41.5 | ||
| Riley Grade Sch 18 | 27.5 | ||
| Cary Grade Sch 26 | 24.9 | ||
| Harrison Grade Sch 36 | 60.1 | ||
| Prairie Grove Grade Sch 46 | 17.8 | ||
| Crystal Lake Grade Sch 47 | 24.3 | ||
| Marengo-Union Grade Sch 165 | 51.8 | ||
| Marengo High Sch 154 | 30.9 | ||
| Crystal Lake High Sch 155 | 18.6 | ||
| McHenry High Sch 156 | 32.3 | ||
| Richmond-Burton High Sch 157 | 12.1 | ||
| Johnsburg Unit Dist 12 | 26.6 | ||
| Alden Hebron Unit Dist 19 | 40.0 | ||
| Harvard Unit Dist 50 | 99.2 | ||
| Huntley Unit Dist 158 | 15.3 | ||
| Woodstock Unit Dist 200 | 38.8 | ||
| Algonquin Unit Dist 300 | 43.6 | ||
| State Average | 43.3 | ||
| Chicago | 83.1 | ||
What is it you find startling? Did you think the tax cuts would make everyone rich? Did you think the wealthy corporations would give big raises to employees?
Why don’t we just tax more and increase those numbers?!?
The only reason socialism hasn’t worked, is you haven’t given dentbla and some high school sophomores, a chance at implementing it.
I have to think that the 99.2% number in Harvard is either a mistake, or else the Harvard schools are really slack in their verification process.
Students from low income families get fee waivers and free/reduced cost meals.
Undocumented students can also participate in these programs, and without an SSN, there is no reliable way to verify income.
Section 8, ain’t it Great!