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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.