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The Eastern Washington County School Corporation is interested in comparing educational performance at four elementary schools and has hired you to prepare a DEA model to do so. After detailed conversations with the corporation administrative staff and the building principals, you have isolated the following input and output measurements:  Input Measures  Output Measures  Average classroom size  Percent of children in remedial classes  Percent of students on reduced price lunch  Average first grade score on standard test  Average number of parent volunteer hours per week  Average fifth grade score on standard test \begin{array}{ll}\text { Input Measures } & \text { Output Measures } \\\hline \text { Average classroom size } & \text { Percent of children in remedial classes } \\\text { Percent of students on reduced price lunch } & \text { Average first grade score on standard test } \\\text { Average number of parent volunteer hours per week } & \text { Average fifth grade score on standard test }\end{array} Data is collected for each school on each measure  School  Archer  Hayes  Ralston  Creekside  Inputs  Classroom size 21283220 % reduced lunch 108252 Avg. vol. hours 30461564 Outputs  % remediation 1512193 1st grade score 83846285 5th grade score 76725379\begin{array} { l | c c c c } & & { \text { School } } \\& \text { Archer } & \text { Hayes } & \text { Ralston } & \text { Creekside } \\\hline \text { Inputs } & & & & \\\text { Classroom size } & 21 & 28 & 32 & 20 \\\text { \% reduced lunch } & 10 & 8 & 25 & 2 \\\text { Avg. vol. hours } & 30 & 46 & 15 & 64 \\\text { Outputs } & & & & \\\text { \% remediation } & 15 & 12 & 19 & 3 \\\text { 1st grade score } & 83 & 84 & 62 & 85 \\\text { 5th grade score } & 76 & 72 & 53 & 79\end{array} Develop the DEA model that would evaluate the efficiency of Ralston Elementary School.

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