- September 7, 2024
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For the first time in nine years, all nine schools in the Flagler County School District have received an A or B grade from the Florida Department of Education.
The district received an overall B grade for the third year in a row.
“I am so proud of the hard work of our faculty, staff and students and the amazing support of this community,” Superintendent LaShakia Moore said in a video released by the district. “I’m so excited to get started with this school year. This is exactly the momentum we need to go after being an A district. You hear it said, but now we get to see it. This is Flagler Forward.”
Three Flagler County schools received an A grade. Matanzas High School improved from a B grade in 2023 to an A, while Indian Trails Middle School attained an A grade for the sixth year in a row and Old Kings Elementary School received an A for the third year in a row.
Buddy Taylor Middle School and Bunnell Elementary School each improved from a C grade to a B.
The other county schools — Rymfire, Wadsworth and Belle Terre elementary schools and Flagler Palm Coast High School — maintained their B grades from a year ago. The county’s charter school, Imagine School at Town Center, also maintained its B grade from 2023.
According to a Flagler Schools press release, learning gains and achievements in English, science and mathematics resulted in improved scores at Matanzas, Buddy Taylor and Bunnell.
Flagler Schools was rated an A district in 2019 after receiving a B grade in seven consecutive years that the grades were released. Due to the pandemic school grades were not recorded in 2020 and districts were given the flexibility to have their grades recorded in 2021. Flagler was not one of the 11 districts to opt in that year.
According to the DOE’s Guide to Calculating School Grades, District Grades and the Federal Percent of Points Index, “a school’s grade may include up to 12 components. There are five achievement components and four learning gains components, as well as components for middle school acceleration, graduation rate and college and career acceleration.”
The five achievement components are English Language Arts, Grade 3 ELA, mathematics, science and social studies.
