School Grades Released

February 13, 2016

The Florida Department of Education released school grades on Friday, and they were mostly good news for schools in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

The Escambia County School District’s grade improved from a C during the previous three years to B for the 2014-15 school year. Santa Rosa County earned an A for the 12th consecutive year.

Thirteen Escambia County School earned an A, while three schools – Montclair, O.J. Semmes and C.A.Weis — were F schools. Five Flags Academy, a charter school that shut down last year, also rank an F.  In Santa Rosa County, 21 of 27 total schools received an A, while no school was grade below a C.

In the North Escambia area:

  • Molino Park maintained its A grade; while Ransom Middle and Tate High remained B schools.
  • Lipscomb Elementary improved from a C to an A.
  • Pine Meadow Elementary improved from a  B to an A.
  • Jim Allen Elementary, Bratt Elementary, and Northview high schools improved from a C to an B.
  • Byrneville Elementary and Ernest Ward Middle School slipped from an A to a B.
  • McArthur Elementary dropped from a B to C.

Complete school grades for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties are below:

Comments

9 Responses to “School Grades Released”

  1. Jon on February 16th, 2016 7:55 am

    And reasaon number 10,001 why I moved to Santa Rosa county. For my children’s sake is just one of the many reasons!

    I agree thought that it takes parents to be the first line to make students and a school succeed. If the parents to not care and the children are worried about home life, then it’s hard to focus and succeed in school! And too many parents expect the school to raise and provide for their children these days.

  2. patti on February 15th, 2016 10:25 am

    CONGRATULATIONS MOLINO!! You have some great teachers there who take their jobs seriously and work to help each child do their very best. Even in Molino there are parents who just DON’T want to be bothered with helping their children. It’ll come home to them someday maybe, or they’re just sorry parents who don’t care anyway.

  3. Karen Mattox on February 14th, 2016 6:02 pm

    Congratulations Lipscomb!

  4. David Huie Green on February 14th, 2016 4:18 pm

    REGARDING:
    “There is no governmental fix for this issue. Until PARENTS invest in their children’s future, their future is lost. ”

    So basically, this tells us which schools have parents who care about their children’s futures. (Others may care, but not enough to shoulder the responsibility.)

    David for better parents

  5. Brittany on February 14th, 2016 11:58 am

    It’s not just the parents or kids not caring, some teachers don’t care.

  6. mary on February 13th, 2016 12:11 pm

    No, the problem doesn’t lie with the teachers. There is no governmental fix for this issue. Until PARENTS invest in their children’s future, their future is lost. Go to the school, call, email the teachers, ask what you can do to help your child….you have 18 years. Of course that entails growing up yourself.

  7. William on February 13th, 2016 10:09 am

    >Does anyone what about holm elementary school off creighton

    Look for “Reinhardt Holm” (the complete name of the school) in the list.

  8. Megan on February 13th, 2016 9:07 am

    Does anyone what about holm elementary school off creighton

  9. Lewis T. on February 13th, 2016 7:52 am

    Has all the illectual ones fron the State and Federal government connected the dots yet, as to why certain scools perform at a failing grade. They certainly get those high salaries to do that. Alll they have come up with in the past is it must be the teacher’s falt. Jerry Clower said some truth many years ago, “Johnny (I know that is sexist) doesn’t read because Johnny doesn’t want to read.”

    It is so true today especially with so many distractions and lack of guidance, along with State and Federal regulations.