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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh geez. The "reputation" Cunningham has is that there are a lot of poor and brown students, relative to the rest of Vienna. It had some struggles a few years ago, almost becoming a Title 1 school, but the principal and staff turned it around.

It is an AMAZING school with a great staff (one stinker of a teacher). The principal will be sorely missed, though. She is moving on to become an executive principal, but she is fantastic.[/quote]

This is not quite right.  Cunningham Park was never on the verge of becoming a Title I school, which is based on having a majority of students qualifying for free or reduced meals.  CP has never been close to meeting that threshold as its FARMS rate is closer to 30%.

CP does have a higher percentage of FARMS students than any other elementary school in the Madison pyramid, including those who live in the Cedar Park Apartments in the SE part of Vienna.  A few years ago CP was also included by FCPS on a list of "priority schools" that either were not meeting state and federal benchmarks or were in danger of not meeting them.  If you're familiar with those benchmarks, you know that having one or more sub-groups whose performance is lagging can cause a school to be deemed "not in compliance," regardless of how well the other students do.  Literally, that's what "no child left behind" was intended to address, and there have been periods when CP's Hispanic students, in particular, have performed below state or federal expectations.  Sometimes that just gets regurgitated as "CP isn't as good as the other schools in Vienna," even if most kids have a good experience there. [/quote]

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