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True, but the fact that the pool and the church, and the convent is in this neighborhood of mostly duplexes and single family homes gives the aura that it's relatively safe neighborhood. There are some areas of Fairfax where you look at 50 apartment buildings in a row and wonder how those buildings were ever all approved next to each other. This area isn't like that. [/quote]

Look at the free and reduced lunch stats.  Not good.
  
 
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Yes. It's a title one school. As discussed in earlier posts, it has more than enough resources to compensate. It doesn't mean it has to fail. Look at the test scores. In 3rd grade, very few failed the reading test. In 6th, almost half the class failed. In mathematics, less kids fail than some of the highest ranking schools in FCPS. There is something about language arts standards that either the teachers are not teaching or the parents are not understanding how to help their children. There needs to be some analysis on what is actually causing these schools to fail instead of just raising up our hands saying it's doomed because it's a high FARMs school or throwing money and resources at the school hoping it improves.[/quote]

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