Should FRC Account for School Size?

[rachelholladay]

Originally Posted by lynca

Size should not matter, small private schools are producing fantastic results in FRC.

What should matter is % of school under free or reduced lunch. The free-lunch % statisitic is a metric used to gauge poverty levels at schools.
After years of watching teams succeed and fail in inner city schools, I believe the free lunch statistic is a major contributor between a sustaining team and unsustainable team.

Now if FRC really wants to meet their growth numbers for the future.
FRC should consider reducing registration fees to teams with a >40% free-lunch .

While this probably would be tricky to integrate (for example, would everyone else's registration go up a little bit to make up this difference?) I do like the sentiment. I agree that percent on free or reduced lunch is an effective way to measure poverty (and therefore lack of availability to resources).