poverty level

It takes into account poverty levels, a crucial factor that heavily influences a school’s test scores.

More than 90 percent of students there live near the federal poverty line, but score much higher in reading and math on California’s standardized tests than its poverty level predicts it should.

Research consistently shows that a school’s poverty level is one of the greatest predictors of test scores, meaning test scores go down as poverty levels rise.

In other words, it scored 67 points higher than its poverty level predicts it should.

Based on the test scores and poverty level of all other schools in the county, Edison’s combined reading and math score should be 62 points below the state’s proficiency benchmark, to be exact.

And fast food workers in hundreds of cities walked off the job Thursday to protest their poverty-level wages.

A. People with family income between 100 and 400 percent of the poverty level.

He cited a statistic he cites often—that 46 percent of New Yorkers are living at or below 150 percent of the poverty level.

Annualized, that comes out to about $25,000, which is barely above the poverty level for a family of four (PDF).

For the first time in Brazilian history, the middle class, now 100 million strong, outnumbers those below the poverty level.