WARSAW, Ky. (WXIX) – A group of eighth-graders at a Northern Kentucky middle school are being applauded for calling November’s election results.
120 Gallatin County Middle School students spent weeks researching polls, analyzing data, and making predictions.
Not only did the students accurately predict that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance would win the election, but some even called the electoral votes correctly.
U.S. history teacher Kevin Gleason knew this opportunity would only occur every four years.
“I planned that I would spend the month before the election teaching about the constitution and how we elect a president,” Gleason said.
Gleason assigned his eighth-grade students a project to predict the outcome of the 2024 election based on the total number of electoral votes each candidate would receive.
The students analyzed data from the website 270toWin and colored maps based on their conclusions.
“We did our swing states and all that, and we did who was going to win all the states,” one student explained.
The total electoral vote count wasn’t tallied when Donald Trump gave his acceptance speech, but the numbers were in by the next morning.
312 electoral votes for Trump and 226 for Vice-president Kamala Harris.
Two of Gleason’s five classes came up with the exact results.
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