More than three‑quarters 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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I teach a classroom of smart, funny, and determined 3rd graders. Our school serves a historically impoverished community in rural Louisiana. On my first day in the classroom, I discovered that most of my students are two to three years behind grade level. On a practical level, that looks like a third grader who cannot identify all the letters and sounds in the alphabet. In response to the dramatic gaps in our students' achievement, our school district was recently taken over by the state.
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I teach a classroom of smart, funny, and determined 3rd graders. Our school serves a historically impoverished community in rural Louisiana. On my first day in the classroom, I discovered that most of my students are two to three years behind grade level. On a practical level, that looks like a third grader who cannot identify all the letters and sounds in the alphabet. In response to the dramatic gaps in our students' achievement, our school district was recently taken over by the state.