If you are basing it on population, 1a (which has 13% of the state's student population) should get 29 qualifiers (13% of 224), the last 5 years 1a has 21 (9.4%), 26 (11.6%), 20 (8.9%), 21 (9.4%) and 24 (10.7%).
If all is fair individually as you say, the placers should follow student population as well and 1a should have 14.5 placers per year, lets call it 14. The last 5 years 1a has had 5 (4.5%), 1 (less than 1%), 8 (7.1%), 7 (6.3%) and 9 (8%).
Each of the past 5 years they have been short on qualifiers, and extremely short on placers. Why is this?