Wendell — Carver Elementary School knows what it’s like not to leave children behind in their education.

The school made the grade in the federal No Child Left Behind program. Only 37 of 157 Wake County Schools met the Average Yearly Progress standard.

Carver Elementary School is the only school in eastern Wake County that met all the targets in math. The AYP results are considered preliminary since reading will be reported later.

Carver Principal Allison Baker attributes the success to parental support and teachers and administrators, who get additional training from Wake County schools.

She said it’s important for teachers to build relationships with students, something Baker said is being done by all teachers in Wake County.

Students in North Carolina are tested as part of the state ABCs in Education legislation.

As mandated by the federal No Child Behind legislation, those results are used to determine a school’s average yearly progress or AYP. If one student fails to get a 75 percent grade, the whole school fails.

If a school does not make the grade in the same grade for two years in a row, it goes into a category called school improvement.

This requires that families have the opportunity to move their children into other schools designated by the school board. It also results in tutoring opportunities for students.

Students are tested on math and reading.

Wake County schools released the preliminary results on the math portion of the test recently. However, ABC scores on individual tests have not been released. They are expected to be released some time this month.

For all its success, Baker said standardized tests show only part of the educational picture.

She said the schools need to educate the whole child.

Baker said an educated child is one who can apply concepts and skills, one who is curious and constantly learning, and one who learns from his mistakes and fixes them.

She also said other measures of student mastery are recorded in report cards. Also, there’s a record teachers keep that shows how well a student has mastered the curriculum.