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Proficiency Testing and Poverty: Looking within a Large Urban District.

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Gallagher, Michael P. – 1993

The relationship between success on proficiency tests and poverty has been widely discussed. This study explores the use of a neighborhood indicator of socioeconomic status based on school lunch participation of elementary school students in that neighborhood, and examines the relationship of poverty to success on a high school proficiency test in…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Correlation, Disadvantaged Youth