New College Board tool helps admissions officers

I’m curious how CB will actually implement this. I used to live in a zip code that had both upper middle class and extremely poor. Surely they don’t do a street by street analysis. That same zip code had 3 elementary schools, 1 of which is where the upper middle class kids went. In HS kid’s are separated out by gen ed, honors, AP, and unsurprisingly almost no UMC kids were in gen ed. What index number would a kid who went to the other 2 elementary schools get? And I’m also curious what factors (and the weight) are included in forming high numbers. Going back to that example, most lower income kids come from immigrant families where English is not spoken in the home and many of those parents have the equivalent of a 5th grade education, but there is a strong sense of family and community and the crime rate is low. Compare that to a community near where I live now of equally low SES but high single parent households and parent has a HS degree but community has a high violence rate. What number would be assigned to that situation?

On the flip side, for schools that say they are need blind, theyll have to get someone to pre-screen apps and only write high numbers on the apps. Otherwise it’s hard to unsee the low number (and presumed ability to pay).

(Hope I got the high/low right).