South Florida school districts are celebrating a stellar showing with school grades this year, with each earning an A grade, based on student achievement. <\/p>\n
Broward received its first A grade since 2011 last year, and it was able to hold on to that coveted distinction for the 2024-25 school year, according to school and district grades released Monday by the state Department of Education. Palm Beach County and Miami-Dade also scored A\u2019s this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an exciting day and a proud moment for Broward County Public Schools,\u201d Broward Superintendent Howard Hepburn said in a news conference Monday afternoon. It was a good year statewide with 28 of 67 school districts receiving A grades this year, up from 22 last year. Duval County received its first-ever A grade, officials announced at Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 news conference Monday afternoon at Oceanway Elementary in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
Grades for individual schools improved as well. \u201cFlorida schools earned improved grades across all school types, including 71% of all graded schools are now earning either an A or a B grade. That\u2019s a really big deal,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThis exceeds our performance last year in which 64% of schools earned an A or a B grade.\u201d In Broward, 53% of 292 district-run and charter schools received A\u2019s, up from 42% last year. No schools received D or F grades this year. Last year, one charter school, Championship Academy of Distinction in Hollywood, was D-rated. It improved to a C this year.<\/p>\n
In Palm Beach County, 47% of schools received A grades, up from 41% last year. No schools in the county were F-rated, while two received D\u2019s: Olympus International Academy and University Preparatory Academy Palm Beach. Last year, six schools were D-rated. In Miami-Dade, 63% of schools were A-rated, compared to 52% last year. No schools were F-rated, and the number of D\u2019s fell from four to two.<\/p>\n
The results are based on a series of tests called the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking. School grades are important not only to schools but families and communities as well, as they can influence where parents send their children to school, where businesses choose to locate and how much houses can sell for.<\/p>\n
Several schools got their first A ever, including Stranahan High and Westwood Heights Elementary in Fort Lauderdale; Boyd Anderson High and Oriole Elementary in Lauderdale Lakes; Rosenwald Elementary in South Bay; Plantation Elementary, Booker T. Washington High in Miami; and Everglades Preparatory Academy High School in Homestead. Other schools got their first A in more than a decade, including Oakland Park Elementary; Blanche Ely High and Cypress Elementary in Pompano Beach; Miramar Elementary; Ramblewood Elementary and Parkside Elementary in Coral Springs; Pahokee Elementary; Pine Grove Elementary in Delray Beach; Crestwood Middle in Royal Palm Beach; and North Hialeah Elementary.<\/p>\n
High schools had a strong showing. In Broward, 12 high schools that had been C or B rated last year improved to an A, and no high school got a lower grade than last year. \u201cIt\u2019s extremely difficult at the high school level to get to the A grade,\u201d said Mark Kaplan, president of the Broward Principals and Assistants Association. \u201cIf you take a look at how the high schools across Broward County have done, we\u2019ve shown remarkable improvement over the last two years.\u201d Kaplan is the principal of Coral Glades High in Coral Springs, which got its first A rating since 2013.<\/p>\n
The scores from the 2024-25 school year seemed to mark a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which had disrupted learning and depressed test scores. Florida\u2019s standardized tests are high-stakes with some scores from some exams being used for promotion and graduation decisions and the results factoring into the A-to-F grades the state assigns public schools.<\/p>\n
In conclusion, South Florida school districts have shown significant improvement in their grades, with all three districts receiving A grades. This improvement is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the teachers, students, and administrators in these districts. The use of progress-monitoring tests has also helped to identify areas where students need additional support, allowing for more targeted interventions.<\/p>\n
School grades in Florida are important as they can influence where parents send their children to school, where businesses choose to locate, and how much houses can sell for.<\/p>\n
School grades in Florida are determined by a series of tests called the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking.<\/p>\n
The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking is a series of progress-monitoring tests that students take three times a year. The first two tests aim to show what students know and what they still need to learn, while the third test is high-stakes and is used to determine school grades.<\/p>\n
The COVID-19 pandemic had a detrimental effect on student learning in Florida, disrupting learning and depressing test scores. However, the latest school grades suggest that schools are recovering from the pandemic.<\/p>\n
A full list of school and district grades can be found at the Florida Department of Education\u2019s website, www.fldoe.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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