Education Crisis: Escambia County has some of the worst middle and high schools in Florida

On Friday, we reported that over 40 percent of Escambia County School District’s public elementary schools are on the state’s Bottom 300 list.

Three of Escambia County’s nine non-charter, middle schools are in the state’s bottom 20 middle schools.

Ranked from the bottom:
# 13 WOODHAM MIDDLE SCHOOl: 304 total points
# 14 WARRINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL: 306 total points
# 19 BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL: 316 total points

The two highest performing middle schools in Escambia County are:

BROWN BARGE MIDDLE SCHOOL 658 total points
RANSOM MIDDLE SCHOOL 470 total points

The five highest performing middle schools in the state are:

DADE: DORAL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY – 830
OKALOOSA: OKALOOSA STEMM CENTER – 821
DADE: ARCHIMEDEAN MIDDLE CONSERVATORY – 772
DADE: GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL – 759
HILLSBOROUGH: TERRACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL- 759

Pine Forest is in the bottom 15 lowest performing non-charter, high schools in the state. Total points 395.

The two highest performing high schools in Escambia County are:

West Florida 615
Tate 566

The five highest performing high schools in the state are:

DADE: DORAL PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY – 823
BROWARD: POMPANO BEACH HIGH SCHOOL – 808
DADE: DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE SENIOR HIGH – 806
DUVAL: STANTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY – 804
PALM BEACH: SUNCOAST COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL – 796

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Superintendent Malcolm Thomas and his district leadership team need to tell us what their plan is to turn around its 17 low performing schools – 13 elementary, three middles and one high school. This appears to be a district-wide problem with over a third of its non-charter schools performing at the bottom.

We need to avoid the blame game -pointing fingers at teachers, parents and students- and seek long-term solutions.

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