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Volume 13 Number 7


April 2019


Camelot Elementary Welcomes Virginia State Superintendent


BY CHESAPEAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS State Superintendent James Lane


visited Camelot Elementary School in Chesapeake on Friday, March 22, 2019, touring elementary classrooms and discussing the school’s rise to full accreditation.


The school, which serves


565 students in preschool through fifth grade, has seen its share of struggles.


Approximately 76 percent


of Camelot Elementary School’s students are currently eligible for the free/reduced lunch program.


As a


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result, Camelot is a designated Title I school that receives state and federal funding to help ensure that children from low-income families meet the state’s challenging academic content and student academic


standards. This funding allows for the creation of specialized programs and school wide improvements that


are


critically important. Yet, even with these additional resources, the school struggled to meet rising benchmarks each year.


PHOTOS COURTESY OF CPS A focus on building relationships


with staff and students was what made the difference. Principal Robert Sander remarked, “We focused on building relationships with our staff; letting the teachers know that we valued them and the work that they do each day.


By


doing that, it opened the door for them to do the same with their students, and the result was almost immediate. Test scores began to go through the roof!” At the start of the 2018-2019 school year the school celebrated—test results revealed that Camelot improved from a status of “Accreditation Denied” to “Accredited”


by meeting


benchmark in every subject. “Results


like achievement the this are hard to


come by; the entire community should be proud of the results at Camelot Elementary School," Dr. Lane commented during the visit. "The hard work of the students, teachers, staff, and leadership is evident as soon as you walk in the building. The gains made in just one year are incredible.”


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