They found that, compared to students in the K-8 middle school setting, students in the traditional middle school setting underperformed in math by about 0.12 at 0.15 standard deviations (Jacob and Rockoff, 13). Similarly, the school system that fails to provide foster children with the emotional support necessary for these academically vulnerable children has been seen as a potential barrier to student academic success (Morton 2015, 488). . Therefore, measures taken to increase the emotional support that students feel in schools are linked to an increase