NBC News May Visit Charles Barnum Elementary

NBC News is expected to visit Charles Barnum Elementary this week, after students scored 100 percent proficiency in math from third to fifth grade for the second straight year.

Superintendent Paul Kadri said during a recent school board meeting the results are the equivalent of being “struck by lightening twice”.

Last year, School Principal Valerie Nelson received a call from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about the school's exemplary test scores. This year, the school's achievements were recognized by the Department of Defense.

Charles Barnum, comprised largely of students from military families, enrolls about 425 children.

: it evaluates individual student progress more than once a month, assesses what incoming students know and what they do not, and goes out of its way to welcome new children.

for the second year, and 94.5 percent scored at or above proficiency in reading.

“I literally thought I had the wrong scores when I picked them up," Charles Barnum Principal Valerie Nelson said of receiving the scores.