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School Grades Are Out: How Did Your Child’s School Score?
June 29, 2017
The Florida Department of Education released the state’s 2017 school report card Wednesday.
Statewide, 57 percent of the more than 3,200 graded public schools earned A’s and B’s this year, up from 46 percent last year.
With an overall “C” grade, Escambia County ranked at 50th in the state among the 67 counties in Florida. Neighboring Santa Rosa County was eighth.
Eight Escambia County schools scored an A grade, while there were nine other schools in Escambia County that earned a D grade. Myrtle Grove and Warrington Elementary schools earned an “F”.
“We had 78.4% of our schools score an A, B or C, up from 72.5% last year and we saw a decrease in the number of schools assigned an F from five to two,” said Deputy Superintendent Norm Ross. “We are continuing to move in the right direction.”
Among the District 5 North Escambia area elementary schools, Bratt Elementary, Molino Park Elementary and Lipscomb Elementary increased their overall school grade from a “B” an “A”.
Pine Meadow Elementary held steady at a “B” grade from 2016 to 2017, while Byrneville Elementary schools increased their school grade from a “C” to a “B”. Jim Allen Elementary slipped from a “B” school in 2016 to a “C” school in 2017.
Ransom Middle School increased from a “C” to a “B” school, while Ernest Ward Middle School remained a “C” school for another year.
Among North Escambia high schools, Northview High School remained a “C” school, while Tate High School remained a “B” school.
School grades for all Escambia County Schools are in the table below:
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11 Responses to “School Grades Are Out: How Did Your Child’s School Score?”
I have to disagree with the statement that the single most powerful influence on a child’s academic performance is their home life. There are multiple factors that play a part in a child’s academic performance. Kids learn in different ways, but they are all expected to learn a certain way and if they can’t learn that way, then they are labeled as having a problem.
For what it’s worth: The scoring system favors larger schools. Two or three failing students can pull the score of a small school down a letter grade, whereas in a large school they wouldn’t affect the average score enough to show.
Also for what it’s worth: The single most powerful influence on a child’s academic performance is his or her home life. Period.
REGARDING:
“Don’t the teachers see the students failing all year long? If the kids are failing, move them to another teacher.”
and
“Mr. Thomas, looks like you deserve the F”
and
“It is economics …”
Blame the teacher.
Blame the principal.
Blame the school superintendent.
Blame poverty.
?
If I do poorly, it is somebody else’s fault?
A child who doesn’t come to school should not blame anyone else for not learning what he didn’t hear.
A child who won’t listen to the teacher should not blame the teacher for what he didn’t hear.
A child who is busy picking on some other child should not blame the principal for what he didn’t hear.
A child who refuses to do the assigned work should not blame the school superintendent.
Yes, some teachers do a poor job, that doesn’t mean the students can’t learn.
Sometimes children come from poor families, that doesn’t mean they can’t learn.
Even children of parents who teach that the way through life is to cheat, steal, use drugs to get by, bully other students, even those children can open their eyes and learn.
It’s just harder for them to learn as long as we tell them somebody else is to blame.
David for better students
50th out of 67? Mr. Thomas, looks like you deserve the F
Dorothy Estrup …
What is Santa Rosa doing that Escambia is not?
You answered your own question, It is economics …
“look at the financial/home life of the children coming from the D/F schools”
The Poverty level in Escambia Co. much higher than SR CO.
You know who should get an F? The person that made that list! What happened to alphabetical order?
What is Santa Rosa doing that Escambia is not?
Also…if you look at the financial/home life of the children coming from the D/F schools, you will see that they are mostly below the poverty line. I have two children in one of these D schools, and I can tell you, it’s not the staff or the curriculum. These kids are only going to do as well as they can when they have much bigger worries at home.
Don’t the teachers see the students failing all year long? If the kids are failing, move them to another teacher. But all day long, this is a very poor county and these scores reflect exactly that.
An analogy of School Grades: Relate these grades to a product being produced in a business or manufacturing venture. If the raw material is high quality, the process of production functional and realistic…the results or what is produced will always be very acceptable.
However, if the reverse is true…the raw material is substandard to start the process and the production process is allowed to vary from acceptable standards…the resulting product will be flawed and substandard.
Observe the schools with consistently high grades, their location, enrollment process and a blind man can see the cause of low performing schools and the subsequent grades. Now add the stigma of being classified as low performing and the case for high performance is diminished even more.
The atmosphere of the school sets a learning experience. Congratulations on the achievement. Hats off to the north end.
What these scores show is that people are still working with children that come from all walks of life. The insanity of “common core” is painful. Once again, trying to teach first graders to ‘think outside the box’ when they don’t know what the box is–is insane. Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. They put people on the moon—while still having summers off, built skyscrapers, a fleet of airlines, ships that sail the seas, medical care that is unbelievably great when left to the free market, etc. Teachers attend classes through the year that are embarrassingly stupid. Kids stay in motion going so many directions in elementary school. We sat at our ‘own’ desks and survived with only getting up for recess and to go to lunch. Rein it in.