Leon County School District Gets State B, No Failing Schools

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Of the 49 schools in the district, about nine out of ten achieved a C or higher.

According to the Florida Department of Education’s assessment of the state’s public school districts for the 2023-2024 school year, the Leon County School District is just three points shy of an “A” grade.

“While there is still much hard work ahead of us, we know we are on the right track,” Leon Schools Superintendent Rocky Hanna said Wednesday. “There have been tremendous learning gains in our schools, and we remain focused on the mission ahead of us. We will continue to support and uplift our great school leaders and our fantastic classroom teachers.”

Of the district’s 49 schools, 91 percent earned a grade of C or higher, and Nims Middle School scored a B for the first time in its 66-year history.

Last year, the school district struggled to analyze learning gains from test scores. In previous years’ school grades, learning gains were calculated in school grades to account for higher averages on state tests each year. Last year, they couldn’t be calculated because of new benchmark standards and the new tests.

The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) was implemented last year as a testing tool to monitor the progress of volunteer students in kindergarten through grade 10 in English and students in K-12 through grade 8 in mathematics.

This is how the schools did it

The Public School Report Card is an interactive database that allows parents and others to see how schools in their community are performing (grades and standardized test scores), as well as the gender and racial demographics of staff and students.

Here are the highlights of Leon County:

No F’s: For the sixth year in a row, there were no failing schools in the district.

These schools received an A:

  • Buck Lake, Chiles High, Deerlake Middle, DeSoto Trail, Gilchrist, Hawks Rise, Killearn Lakes Elementary, Roberts, SAIL High, Swift Creek and Montford Middle all maintained A grades for the 2023-2024 school year from 2022-2023.
  • Pineview Elementary made a significant leap from a C to an A last year.

These schools showed improvement:

  • Augusta Raa Middle School and Fairview Middle School went from a C to a B. Oak Ridge Elementary School went from a D last year to a C this year.
  • Nims Middle School received a B, an improvement from last year’s “incomplete” score.

These schools will be removed from the district’s accountability list, also known as the trial list:

Astoria Park, Hartsfield and Springwood elementary schools went from a D to a C this year.

Five schools received an ‘I’ or incomplete:

  • Bond primary school
  • Griffin High School
  • Amos P. Godby High School
  • James S. Rickards High School
  • Leon High School

District spokesman Chris Petley said that may be because those schools did not meet the threshold of 95% of students registering for state testing. District officials will work with the state to resolve the score. He said the May 10 tornadoes disrupted the district’s testing schedule, which could be a reason for the inconclusive result.

Two schools received a D:

  • Sabal Palm Elementary and the Ft. Braden K-8 school went from C to D.

Charter schools:

  • The School of Arts and Sciences on Thomasville Road remains the only A charter school in the district, while its counterpart, the School of Arts and Sciences at Centre, has dropped from a B to a C rating.
  • Tallahassee School of Math and Sciences dropped from a B to a C.
  • Renaissance Academy received a C, while last year they received a D.
  • Tallahassee Classical School received a C.

Research schools:

  • Florida A&M University’s Developmental Research School has a C.
  • Florida State University School earned an A.

Compare with last year: The 2023 school grades are in: Here’s how Leon County schools fared

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