&gt; How can nothing have changed about the school? Schools derive a great deal of their funding from property taxes. You just described a school district dramatically gentrifying and going from 80% low-income to less than 15% low-income. The school now has a dramatically larger budget.<p>This is incorrect. All of the public schools in DC are in one school district, so the changing demographics of neighborhoods don&#x27;t affect how much money is available for any given school in that district. The property taxes are all going into one pot.