Alexandria, VA

Samuel Tucker Elementary

 

•Samuel Tucker Elementary in Alexandria, Virginia, which has a student population that is 25 percent Latino, 43 percent black, and 17 percent white, with 56 percent receiving free or reduced-price lunch.

 

•Students in every subgroup beat the state average in terms of percentage passing state math and language arts tests

 

•The subgroup passing rates at the school nearly equal or exceed the passing rates for whites statewide.

 

•For example, the 2003 statewide passing rate for whites in math was 84 percent. At Tucker, the math passing rate was 84 percent for blacks, 85 percent for Latinos, 84 percent for all economically disadvantaged, and 93 percent for limited English proficient.

 

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