Warrington Middle is still struggling. The one bright spot was its FCAT reading score for its eighth grade– 8 percent more scoring 3 or higher. The incoming sixth grade class did poorly…
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Escambia Middle Schools have similar results in reading
Warrington Middle finished at the bottom Sixth Seventh Eighth Total STATEWIDE AVG. 67 68 55 190 BROWN BARGE MIDDLE SCHOOL 94 95 84 273 RANSOM MIDDLE SCHOOL 74 81 67 222 JIM…
Four Escambia Middle Schools best state average in math
Escambia County has nine public middle schools. Four of them beat the state average for students who scored 3 or higher on the math portion of the test. Warrington Middle finished at…
Little or improvement in FCAT math
As with reading, Escambia School District was below the state average for percentage of students who score 3 or above on the math tests. Seventh grade was 10 points below state average,…
Little improvement in FCAT reading, grades 4-10
The FCAT reading scores show a slight improvement for Escambia County, but all its grades, except for ninth, had a lower percentage of students score 3 or above than the state average. …
Buzz: Escambia High in lockdown
A parent just called to tell me that Escambia High School went into lockdown this morning. An armed trespasser was seen on campus. Escambia County Sherif’f’s Office responded. The suspect was chased…
Video saves Hernando teacher from prosecution
This news story from the St. Pete Times has me wondering if the School District should invest in video cameras in the classrooms, at least at the middle and high school levels….
Buzz: Santa Rosa school district avoids another lawsuit
Did you notice last week that most of the recipients of the administrative raises were female? The word I’m hearing is that discrepancies were so big between the males and females there…
Escambia Co. improves literacy by 5 pts, Santa Rosa 13 pts.
I am a numbers geek. Looking at the third grade FCAT scores that were released this week, I became curious as to how prepared these children were when they started school as…
Top and Bottom Third Grade Classes, based on 2011 FCAT
Top 10 Third Grade Classes—Three Charter Schools are in the top 10: MATH READING PENSACOLA BEACH CHARTER SCHOOL 100 100 200 BYRNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC. 96 100 196 CORDOVA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL…
Escambia FCAT – Third Grade Math
Three highest performing third grades were at Pensacola Beach Charter (100 percent scoring 3 or above), Byrneville Charter (96 percent) and A.K. Suter (95 percent). Three most improved schools: Montclair (up 24…
Escambia FCAT – Third Grade Reading
The Byrneville and Pensacola Beach charter schools have the highest percentage of student scoring 3 or above. The three most improved schools were Spencer Bibbs (up 12 pts), L.D. MacArthur (up 11)…