Student Body
During the 2004-2005 school year, Woodson had 969 students .
92% of the students were African-American. 7% of the students were Hispanic. 1% of the students was Asian American. White Americans and Native Americans each made up less than 1% of the student body.
94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced lunch.
During the 2001-2002 school year (Woodson's final year as a middle school instead of a combined elementary and middle school), the school had 357 pupils (down from 394 during the previous school year). During the following school year, the school had 1,098 pupils. During the 2004-2005 school year, the school was down to 969 students.
Read more about this topic: Woodson K-8 School
Famous quotes containing the words student and/or body:
“here
to this college on the hill above Harlem
I am the only colored student in my class.”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)