More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Diversity plays a big role in my classroom. I teach reading, social studies, language arts, and spelling in a self-contained fifth grade classroom. Within my classroom I have six students with exceptional needs in reading and language arts. Our school community varies greatly from student to student. Most of their parents have lost jobs in the textile industry and the small farms nearby have lost tobacco contracts or the milk is just too high and profits too low, forcing them to close.
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Diversity plays a big role in my classroom. I teach reading, social studies, language arts, and spelling in a self-contained fifth grade classroom. Within my classroom I have six students with exceptional needs in reading and language arts. Our school community varies greatly from student to student. Most of their parents have lost jobs in the textile industry and the small farms nearby have lost tobacco contracts or the milk is just too high and profits too low, forcing them to close.