{"id":3936,"date":"2012-01-04T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2012-01-12T14:06:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T19:06:40","slug":"high-school-grades-are-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/04\/high-school-grades-are-out\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Grades Are Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/failing-schools.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3943\" title=\"failing schools\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/failing-schools.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>The state has fewer &#8220;F&#8221; schools and more &#8220;A&#8221; and &#8220;B&#8221; schools, according to new high school grades released by the state.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/\">\u00a0Florida Department of Education<\/a>\u00a0said, &#8220;Based on the results&#8230; school recognition funds will be determined and will reward schools that have sustained high student performance or demonstrated substantial improvement in student performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The &#8220;A&#8221; Through &#8220;F&#8221; Schools For The 2010-2011 School Year:\u00a0<\/strong>These figures include all public high schools and combination schools that serve high school grade levels.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>F = 6 schools<\/strong> earned an &#8220;F&#8221;\u00a0compared to 11 schools the year before.<\/li>\n<li><strong>D = 25 schools<\/strong> earned a &#8220;D&#8221; compared to 57 schools the year before.<\/li>\n<li><strong>C = 72 schools<\/strong> earned a &#8220;C&#8221; compared to 69 schools the year before.<\/li>\n<li><strong>B = 224 schools<\/strong> earned a &#8220;B&#8221;\u00a0compared to 188 schools the year before<\/li>\n<li><strong>A = 147 schools<\/strong> earned an &#8220;A&#8221; compared to 145 schools the year before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>School grades are based on two major elements.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50% of the school&#8217;s grade comes from the students score on the FCAT at each school.<\/li>\n<li>50% comes from factors like the school\u2019s graduation rate and the graduation rate of at-risk students, the participation and performance of students in advances classes, certificate programs and college placement tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This expanded high school <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/jp\/new-fcat-cut-scores-unanimously-adopted\/\">grading formula<\/a> was used for the first time in the 2009-2010 school year.<\/p>\n<p>School districts can appeal the grade through February 3, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the full list of the 474 public high school grades at the Florida Department of Education <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolgrades.fldoe.org\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state has fewer &#8220;F&#8221; schools and more &#8220;A&#8221; and &#8220;B&#8221; schools, according to new high school grades released by the state. The\u00a0Florida Department of Education\u00a0said, &#8220;Based on the results&#8230; school recognition funds will be determined and will reward schools that have sustained high student performance or demonstrated substantial improvement in student performance.&#8221; The &#8220;A&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1033,1041,1106,1018],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}