I am sorry.. That information is not correct.
Filling out an application and being denied, does nothing for numbers for the state. It is strictly approved numbers and the schools percentage of free and reduced that matter regardless if the school is title 1 or not. Households can not be required to complete an application for any reason.

@Lace : It is not incorrect. ETA: Whether approved or denied it still gives the State an accurate count of how many kids attend the Title I school to receive the proper amount on funding. The percentage is based of off the student body as a whole, not free/reduced lunch recipients.

Again. Not true. Attendance is not determined by how many lunch applications are submitted. Most students receiving benefits at title 1 schools receive free lunch due to SNAP or Medicaid. These students are Direct Certified and do not even complete an application. Households can not be required to complete an application , so those two examples alone explain why numbers are not determined by how many applications are completed. A T1 school must have 40% or above free and reduced to be considered T1.
So having a household complete an application and it is denied, that means nothing to the equation and is not beneficial to the equation .

@Lace : You're correct here. This has nothing to do with attendance.However, you are incorrect here; sorry.Households are not being required to fill out these forms. I think this is where your misunderstanding. They don't HAVE to fill out the forms; however, doing so greatly benefits the funding schools receive. Let's take for instance my buddy in Colorado. All students there receive free lunch. Even though schools receive free lunch, they still send out the forms. Why do they do that? Accountability for extra funding. Even if the application is denied, it still counts towards the population of the student body. Let's take your 40% and do some math. If you calculate that 40% into a smaller number, you get a small number back. If you calculate that 40% into a larger number, you get a larger number back. This alone is why it's important households fill out the form. Sure, you don't have to; however, how much funding the school receives is dependent upon it.

Completing an application which is ultimately denied has no effect on anything. Obviously if it's approved it does. But let's take that one step further . Some households fill out an application, but they are direct certified ( snap , Medicaid). Those direct certifications take precedence over income qualification, so that application is deleted. So again. Just the act of completing an application does not boost numbers, Only those approved for free and reduced do.
It's literally my job.

@Lace : How does a denied application not have an affect when it's submitted with the child's name and school? Again, this doesn't have to do with who is approved and who isn't approved. It's about Title I schools receiving adequate funding from the State. The NATIONAL school lunch program funds the district. The district funds mainly go to non-Title I schools. However, Title I schools get a majority of their funds from the State.With all due respect, if this is truly your job, you might want to look further into this or go and somebody a few questions on how this works; because, I have been to a few meetings on this topic and this is how it works.
I don't know what else to tell you. Go talk to some Title I Administrators.

@Lace : It literally describes the benefits on the graphic.

I don't know how else to tell you.
You are completely wrong.
You honestly think that enrollment numbers come from only those that complete applications.??
And yep. 16 years in the role. I don't need to ask anyone.

@Lace : You might want to go ask somebody. No, I do not think enrollment numbers ONLY come from the forms. HOWEVER, filling out the forms provides MORE funding to the Title I school. What is so hard to understand?

My kids go to a title 1 school and everyone receives free lunch. They've never asked us to fill out the form anyway.

@MrsT : That's interesting with y'all being in the same State as us. NCISD gives their kids classroom chromebooks. Humble ISD is so large. I think we have 30+ elementary schools.

@eighteen :
6-12 every kid gets a laptop. They turn it in when they graduate or leave the district . Elementary kids all have a tablet but it stays at school.

Here are the maps for:Middle School
High School

@eighteen : You still on IL? 😂😂

@West-Tex : I'm not worried about it. I know the information I'm putting out there is correct... unless something has changed over Summer.
-it hasn't.However, 16yrs ago, Title I statuses weren't so prevalent within our district. I think with everything changing and this push for vouchers, Administrators at these campuses want to make sure every child is accounted for; because, these campuses are the ones that will be hurt the most if vouchers are implemented.