5 minutes ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Boone County, as a county and a school district, is definitely not low-income. Boone County High School, though, meaning the demographic of families that specifically attend BCHS is definitely low income; that is precisely what the free lunches figure illustrates. If you take a look at the Dept of Education's data for this school year, among the students currently attending BCHS, 78.22% of them come from families who have low enough household incomes to qualify them for the state's free lunch program. Translation: More than 3 out of 4 kids who go to Boone County High School comes from a family that can't afford to buy them lunch.

This is spot on.  I think you have to really know the Boone County Public Schools situation to understand it.  Its really hard for someone not familiar with the area to understand how the County school system covers the numbers you quote above all the way up to Triple Crown.  It's literally night and day.  Then add on top of all of it, the history and tradition of BCHS up until a decade or decade and a half ago.  It gives you a different appreciation for this situation.    

1 minute ago, James Graham said:

This is spot on.  I think you have to really know the Boone County Public Schools situation to understand it.  Its really hard for someone not familiar with the area to understand how the County school system covers the numbers you quote above all the way up to Triple Crown.  It's literally night and day.  Then add on top of all of it, the history and tradition of BCHS up until a decade or decade and a half ago.  It gives you a different appreciation for this situation.    

Good point and it is not just Triple Crown, there are numerous areas in Boone County that are not Triple Crown where the housing prices are essentially 400K and up. 

Just now, theguru said:

Good point and it is not just Triple Crown, there are numerous areas in Boone County that are not Triple Crown where the housing prices are essentially 400K and up. 

That just jogged my memory to a conversation I had with the realtor a couple of years ago when we were buying our latest house. We were talking neighborhoods and the house values in them, and she said she had recently sold two houses in Boone County...identical floorplans, similar sized lots, just really comparable houses, located a street apart from one another. She said one of them sold for something like $90K less than the other. When I asked why she said, "Schools. One house was districted for Ryle, and the other was districted for Boone County [High School]."

38 minutes ago, theguru said:

I don't know what the numbers say but I have a pretty detailed understanding of all the residential areas surrounding Boone County high school and the majority of it "looks" middle to low income to me.  Out on the fringes where Conner, Cooper, and Ryle start drawing students, things look a lot nicer.  

And again everyone, when it comes to Boone County high school probably close to half the students live in either apartments, duplexes/rentals, or extended stay motels. 

I guess I should’ve used the word “transient” when I chimed in pages ago. My wife is a teacher. Used to teach at Tichneor. She said low income isn’t correct , transient would be the better word because of the constant moving in and out of the school district. I don’t need to be in the school system to see what the school has become. I officiated long enough to see it go from a state power to not even contending in their own district due to the suburban sprawl. 

2 minutes ago, Breds82 said:

I guess I should’ve used the word “transient” when I chimed in pages ago. My wife is a teacher. Used to teach at Tichneor. She said low income isn’t correct , transient would be the better word because of the constant moving in and out of the school district. I don’t need to be in the school system to see what the school has become. I officiated long enough to see it go from a state power to not even contending in their own district due to the suburban sprawl. 

Transient is an excellent term.  Give the teacher an entire year with a lower income student and watch how their state testing scores improve.  Have the same student move to three different school districts in a year and the same state testing scores plummet. 

3 hours ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Boone County, as a county and a school district, is definitely not low-income. Boone County High School, though, meaning the demographic of families that specifically attend BCHS is definitely low income; that is precisely what the free lunches figure illustrates. If you take a look at the Dept of Education's data for this school year, among the students currently attending BCHS, 78.22% of them come from families who have low enough household incomes to qualify them for the state's free lunch program. Translation: More than 3 out of 4 kids who go to Boone County High School comes from a family that can't afford to buy them lunch.

What is the demographic of the other 20%?

I was thinking free lunch percent was more like 60%, so the numbers are higher than I was thinking. But if 20% of the student population is $100,000+ income, how does that reflect on the low income school viewpoint?

I understand it is a “but if” statement but who says the other 20% are 100,000+ incomes? I’m sure there is part of that 20% who are (for lack of a better way of putting it) just not poor enough for free and reduced lunch. 

1 hour ago, barrel said:

I understand it is a “but if” statement but who says the other 20% are 100,000+ incomes? I’m sure there is part of that 20% who are (for lack of a better way of putting it) just not poor enough for free and reduced lunch. 

Knowing neighborhoods and families whose children attended Boone Co., there is a percentage of students who fit the $100,000+ income category. 

Now that the Brossart decision has been made, has there been any information leaked about how the Boone County search is going?

On 2/15/2024 at 12:20 PM, En Fuego Hombre said:

Now that the Brossart decision has been made, has there been any information leaked about how the Boone County search is going?

This, anything on the Boone job?

This job search has been very quiet.

Still no information? All of the open job threads have gotten quite!! I guess everyone is focused on regional basketball games!?

1 hour ago, LC-Flyboy said:

Still no information? All of the open job threads have gotten quite!! I guess everyone is focused on regional basketball games!?

Boone is probably just focused on finding applicants, not choosing the best one at this point time.

Hasn't BC already started interviews or just not happy with the pool of candidates?

1 hour ago, TRPride said:

Hasn't BC already started interviews or just not happy with the pool of candidates?

I have heard they have interviewed some people, but that’s all I really have heard.