### Question
What does high-poverty local educational agency mean?


### Answer
**High-poverty local educational agency** has the following meaning in *20 U.S.C. § 7315*:

> a local educational agency for which 20 percent or more of the children who are age 5 through 17, and served by the local educational agency, are from families with incomes below the poverty line

#### Citation:
  - *20 U.S.C. § 7315*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 70-STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS > SUBCHAPTER VI-FLEXIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY > PART A-IMPROVING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT > subpart 3-state and local flexibility demonstration > Division A-State Flexibility Authority**

