In addition, the school has a Functionally Mentally Delayed classroom for those students who need a more individualized and protected environment. This group participates in community-based education. The school would rather not have this happen, but they must comply. Students are assigned to math classes based on their previous year's scores. There is no way that BCMS can expose it students to the dailiness of social diversity.
Teachers come from the area.
The faculty therefore is not racially or linguistically diverse. This is a coherent school driven by data. It has powerful leadership in the person of its Principal, who energetically presses for increased use of data to undergird decision-making. The school is involved in intensive professional development to institute Different Ways of Knowing, which it has chosen to strengthen the role of the arts and help further integrate the curriculum. Partnerships and voluntarism connect the school to the community.