When a school looks good, students feel good, which can lead to improved academic achievement, said education experts.

“Students pick up on the attractiveness of a school, and one way to communicateto them that they?re really important is to send them to a nice place,” said Douglas MacIver, a research scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore City. “And it?s not all that far-fetched [that student achievement would improve under those conditions].”

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