PENSACOLA, Fla. — After more than two decades without a rating higher than a “C,” West Pensacola Elementary School has earned a change that the principal partially credits to a new sixth-grade program that keeps students on the elementary campus for an extra year.
Christine Baker, who has been the school’s principal for nine years, has taken a different approach to the transition into middle school by adding classes for sixth-grade students at West Pensacola Elementary.
Students on the brink of 6th grade have a choice: continue attending the elementary campus or attend a separate middle school…