Wake's new comparability effort had both some successes and some failures this school year.

The school board revised the assignment policy to bring in the idea of "comparability." The goal was to make schools in an area have similar demographics, even when it meant the unpopular notion of moving affluent areas into schools that have more low-income students.

Based on recently released data, some schools did see their percentages of low-income students go up to become more comparable to their neighbors.