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Six CB Schools Fall Short of Federal Benchmark

Special education students did not reach the goals for math set out by No Child Left Behind.

Most of the schools in the Central Bucks School District achieved benchmarks set by federal school regulations, but a handful did not.

Of the district's 23 schools, six did not achieve "adequate yearly progress," the Pennsylvania Department of Education said Thursday.

The conclusions are drawn from student scores on the PSSA (Pennsylvania System of School Assessment) exams from last spring. The results of the state's standardized tests were released Thursday.

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Central Bucks East and West high schools, Holicong, Lenape and Unami middle schools, and Barclay Elementary received warnings based on those scores. All the warnings were based on not enough special education students achieving sufficiency ratings in math.

To meet this year's benchmark, 67% of all students in each subgroup must be proficient in math.

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