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Byline: Gabriela C. Guzman Journal Staff Writer
Several School Districts Appeal
One, two and three.
These are the numbers of students it would have taken for Agua Fria Elementary School, Robertson High School in Las Vegas and Los Alamos Middle School, respectively, to make the state's list of schools performing at federally required academic levels.
These numbers have nothing to do with academics -- all three of these schools met academic standards, according to the state-mandated tests.
Instead, these numbers refer to the number of students who took the test. No Child Left Behind, the federal law that outlines how public schools are rated, requires that students achieve certain academic standards, but also requires that 95 percent…