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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]In any school especially one that draws military there will be some mobility.[/quote]

Are there many military kids at this school?  Somehow, even with proximity to Belvoir, I doubt it.[/quote]

I think it is safe to assume there is a higher % of military children at the school because of its proximity to Ft Belvoir and the relative affordability of homes in its boundary.  Its mobility rate is quite high for our district, which already has a high mobility rate.  It has a high % of ESL students and a high percentage of FRL students.  It's special needs population is also equally high for the district.  All of those factors contribute the fact that Bucknell has a much high population (as a % of its students) of harder to teach students.   It is easy to get high scores in schools that have fewer students (as a %) in any of those categories.  Mobility compounds all of the other hurdles as you are starting over at zero with a high % of students every year in every grade.   If we tested in September and agin in June with the students that were there all year, I think you would see significant improvement.

I think if you compare other schools with similar demographics outside of FCPS, you will find that the test scores are very good. [/quote]

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