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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Belvedere Elementary.  Lackluster academics.  IB is a joke. Untrustworthy admin.[/quote]

Belvedere's test scores are [i]spectacular[/i] given the large Hispanic population and large FARMs population. It is extremely rare to see a school have such high scores with that type of diverse population. We have people here on DCUM claiming that schools like Sangster ES are closing the achievement gap  :roll:

Belvedere staff are truly working miracles because no other low-SES, high-FARMs school shows such results. Something great must be happening in the classroom despite the untrustworthy admin you've encountered.[/quote]

When I was an FCPS student, many, many years ago, Belvedere was where they sent FCPS's most brilliant elementary students, not what is considered advanced/gifted today, but the truly gifted, the students with uncoached and raw ability who scored in the 140+ on school-administered IQ tests. I know I scored in the high 120s and qualified for tracked/advanced classes, but, not GT pullouts, and was nowhere near the Belvedere cut. There was actually only one kid that year, pulled from the entire group selected to test, who was pulled out for Belvedere.

Not sure what happened, or what it eventually evolved into, but perhaps some of the teaching methods, and practices of yore are still in use today. [/quote]

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