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All neighborhood schools Fully Accredited

The Virginia Department of Education released the 2009-2010 accreditation numbers based on last year’s SOL scores. For the 2nd year in a row all of the neighborhood schools are fully accredited. Congratulations to Chimborazo Elementary, Bellevue Elementary, George Mason Elementary, Fairfield Elementary, Woodville Elementary, Martin Luther King Jr Middle School, Armstrong High School, and Franklin Military Academy!

Here are the Richmond scores. (I’ll clean up the presentation later today)

Ninety-eight percent of Virginia’s elementary schools and 98 percent of the commonwealth’s high schools are now fully accredited.
 
The percentage of middle schools achieving full accreditation increased again as the performance of students on rigorous grade-level mathematics tests introduced four years ago continued to improve. Ninety-six percent, or 299, of Virginia’s 312 middle schools are now fully accredited compared with 87 percent last year and 69 percent two years ago.
 
“All but a handful of schools are now meeting or exceeding state standards even though the rigor of the commonwealth’s SOL accountability system has increased,” Board of Education President Mark E. Emblidge said. “The board will maintain its focus on raising achievement in schools that have yet to earn and maintain full accreditation.”