Team Demographics

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Dan50

I have a question, all the demographics except one has to deal with the team. My questions is: Why do they want to know how many students from the school get free or reduced lunches?

Free or reduced price lunches are how school districts tract how many students they have from low income families. A schools social-economic base is an important demographic.

Wetzel

[RoboMom]

It is used as a snapshot statistic to look at the demographic profile of students attending a school. In addition, FIRST sometimes receives grants targeted at certain demographic groups, which fits into the mission of the granting organization.

You can look up this information for your school to help with the "yearbook" page in a centralized database through the National Center for Educational Statistics.
http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/