5 Responses to “all neighborhood schools are fully accredited”

1. posted by john_m at September 25, 2008 4:07 pm :
   

   Statewide, 87 percent of the middle schools are accredited.

   Blackwell Elementary, Elkhardt Middle, Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary, and Swansboro Elementary are “Accredited with Warning”. Chandler Middle and Thomas C. Boushall Middle are “Conditionally Accredited”. The rest of the city schools are “Fully Accredited”.

2. posted by Celeste at September 25, 2008 4:50 pm :
   

   John, congrats on MLK Jr Middle School being accredited!

3. posted by john_m at September 28, 2008 12:38 pm :
   

   A big part of what has made our school more and more successful in the few years that I have been include both a stable and supportive building-level administration and better retention of talented teachers. Also, the students are coming more prepared from the elementary schools (for the most part :)

4. posted by john_m at October 9, 2008 3:46 pm :
   

   The RTD has a good piece about MLK today: 7 of 9 middle schools earn accreditation - Richmond’s King Jr., led by Principal Aaron Dixon, succeeds in SOL testing

   Of the city’s nine middle schools, seven earned state accreditation this year, up from three last year.

   Nowhere is the change more evident than at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School.

   Sitting on the edge of the Mosby Court public-housing complex, the school has served one of the city’s toughest student populations since it opened in 1963. While the name has changed from Mosby to King — in part to distance the school from the public perception of crime in the Mosby neighborhood — its challenge has not: reaching a student population that is predominantly poor, mobile and subject to academic failure.

5. posted by Bill Hartsock at October 9, 2008 3:52 pm :
   

   What 6th grade History teacher, John Murden, does not quote is the fact that the scores in the history section of the SOL was the one with the most improvement. You deserve some recognition, also.

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