enrollment of needy students
(3) Enrollment of needy students The term “enrollment of needy students” means the enrollment at an institution of higher education with respect to which not less than 50 percent of the undergraduate students enrolled in an academic program leading to a degree— (A) in the second fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the determination is made, were Federal Pell Grant recipients for such year; (B) come from families that receive benefits under a means-tested Federal benefit program (as defined in paragraph (5)); (C) attended a public or nonprofit private secondary school— (i) that is in the school district of a local educational agency that was eligible for assistance under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 [ 20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.] for any year during which the student attended such secondary school; and (ii) which for the purpose of this paragraph and for that year was determined by the Secretary (pursuant to regulations and after consultation with the State educational agency of the State in which the school is located) to be a school in which the enrollment of children counted under a measure of poverty described in section 1113(a)(5) of such Act [ 20 U.S.C. 6313(a)(5) ] exceeds 30 percent of the total enrollment of such school; or (D) are first-generation college students (as that term is defined in section 1070a–11(h) of this title ), and a majority of such first-generation college students are low-income individuals.