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There will be more than eight students graduating from Armstrong High School on Sunday.

Data presented to the Richmond School Board on May 20 showed that less than half of the school district’s 1,090 seniors were “on track” to graduate, meaning they had met all the state requirements for graduation at that point. According to the data, only eight of the 162 seniors, or 4.9%, from Armstrong had met all the requirements. In fact, more than 100 actually will.

The number of on-track Armstrong students (8) was widely shared on social media and criticized for not painting a clearer picture of what exactly that meant.

Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras apologized Thursday for how the data were presented to the School Board.

“It led to, understandably, a lot of anxiety and a lot of concern,” Kamras said.

It was also criticized Thursday during a town hall meeting called by the Richmond chapter of the NAACP at Mount Olivet Church in the city’s East End.

“We believe in our children,” said J.J. Minor, the chapter president. “You all have to do a better job communicating with the public with what’s going on.”