James Monroe High School

That's up from 7 last year.

James Monroe High School made the second greatest gain over last year among all 116 schools in the Virginia Department of Education's Region 3.

Seven Spotsylvania County schools and two Stafford County schools were also among the top 20 Region 3 schools with the greatest gains.

This is the second year for the School Performance and Support Framework, which aims to measure how students perform against expectations.

And, um, so I've probably spent longer as a leader than I have as an actual teacher when you look back over the course of, the course of it.

But I went to VCU, did my master's at VCU, where I would sit in classes at James Monroe.

We'd do the classes at James Monroe.

I hope they're still doing those classes.

And, um, became, you know, became principal at Occoquan Elementary, so been a principal at both the elementary and the secondary school level.

Two houses in Fredericksburg.

Our first little house that was as big as, as an old railway house.

The, the old railway houses there, but down from James Monroe.

... and that's where his brothers went.

Um, and- You know, that was a thing, like, the, the year he graduated, and it was very nice that James Monroe let us, um, be a part of some of those things, and I could see all of his classmates.

And, um, that was always a, a mixed blessing.

Like, it was so cool to see them-