Lots of people saying that low-income students at magnet schools will have scores that “don’t reflect their situation”…but don’t the high school AND the home neighborhood both affect the challenges one faces?
I agree that a low-income student at an affluent school will have a lower adversity score than maybe they should, but still, I think that a poor student who goes to a wealthy high school (with AP classes, smaller class size, good guidance cousenlors, etc.) would probably face less adversity than a poor student who goes to a poor school (that may not have the same resources, classes, etc).
So really, to truly capture a student’s “real” situation (whatever that means), they would have to incorporate both school-level and student-level data, which they aren’t doing and probably couldn’t.