Federally Assisted Households Lack Access to High-Performing Schools
Proficiency Percentile % Free/Reduced
Rank Math/ELA* Price Lunch
Housing Choice Voucher Households 26 74.1
Public Housing 19 82.1
Project-Based Section 8 28 68.6
LIHTC 31 67.1
All Households 53 45.9
All Renters 37 66.8
*Proficiency measured using percentile rank for each school in every state, based on student proficiency rates in math and English language arts. Percentile rank reported is the median percentile rank for schools closest to households receiving each subsidy type.
Source: Ellen, Ingrid Gould, Keren Mertens Horn (2012). Table 1. Do Federally Assisted Households Have Access to High Performing Public Schools? Poverty & Race Research Action Council (2012). Author: Washington, D.C. Retrieved from: http://www.prrac.org/pdf/PRRACHousingLocation&Schools.pdf.