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Bluewater school: A family success story

Third-grade teacher Gwen Heinsohn helps Brent Cooper with a math problem on Tuesday at Bluewater Elementary School. The school was named a Blue Ribbon School by the state Secretary of Education Veronica Garcia for for making Adequate Yearly Progress for the past five years. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

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Gallup Independent
By Jim Tiffin
Cibola County Bureau

BLUEWATER — Ty Robinson, 11, a sixth-grade student at Bluewater Elementary School, said he likes the school because there are so few students in his class.

“We have such great teachers, they give us a lot of individualized attention,” he said. The success of the school’s language arts program is evident in the 11-year-old’s use of the word “individualized.”

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