LeBron James’ School Crushing Expectations, Huge Gains In Test Scores

LeBron James is really proud of the kids from his I Promise School. The Lakers star did a really good job in his hometown, and the results are better than ever.

There are 240 students in the 3^rd and 4^th grade classes at the Akron school. At the beginning, the kids scored 1% in reading. Within a year, the 3^rd graders scored 9% and the 4^th graders had 16%. This is brilliant at so many levels. When it comes to math, the 3^rd graders went from 1% to 18%, and the 4^th graders jumped from the 2% to the 30^%.

LeBron is more than proud of his kids and their great improvement. He knew that those kids were up to something great, and that’s exactly what happened.

“These kids are doing an unbelievable job, better than we all expected,” LeBron said. “When we first started, people knew I was opening a school for kids. Now people are going to really understand the lack of education they had before they came to our school. People are going to finally understand what goes on behind our doors.”

The basketball star didn’t have the happiest childhood, and too many kids have the same problems as he did. LeBron was raised by a single mom, and the least thing he could do was give those kids a chance to learn something, give them education. Hopefully, they will be as successful as he is.

”As a kid from Akron Ohio myself I remember walking these same streets I remember walking North Street… riding my bike throughout the rest of the city,” LeBron said in one of his interviews.

“Kids just want to know that you care. Once they know that you care, then they will tap into their gift. That’s what I’m just trying to do. Let the kids know that we care, that I care. Then we’ll let them fly away. I walked the same streets as those kids. I had the same dreams. The same nightmares. The same upbringing as those kids, so I know everything that they’re going through.”

Keep up the good job, kids, education is important.