Suwannee County School District retains B grade
Published 1:00 pm Wednesday, July 4, 2018
- Suwannee Elementary School received an A grade for the second straight year.
LIVE OAK, Fla. — School grades were recently released by the Florida Department of Education and, as a whole, Suwannee County passed with ease.
For the 2017-18 school year, the Suwannee County School District kept its B grade.
| 17-18 | 16-17 | 15-16 | 14-15 | 13-14 | |
| Suwannee County School District | B | B | C | B | C |
| Suwannee Intermediate | D | C | C | C | D |
| Suwannee High | B | B | C | B | C |
| Suwannee Middle | C | C | C | C | C |
| Suwannee Elementary | A | A | B | C | D |
| Branford Elementary | C | B | C | B | B |
| Branford High | B | B | C | B | B |
“This is the first time the district has made back-to-back grades of B,” Superintendent Ted Roush said.
In addition to the district maintaining its grade from a year ago, four of the individual schools also kept its grades this past year. Suwannee Elementary School received the highest grade in the district with an A for the second straight year. Suwannee High School and Branford High School both received a B grade once again, while Suwannee Middle School kept a C grade. Suwannee Intermediate School dropped to a D, from a C. Branford Elementary School dropped to a C, from a B.
“This is the first time Suwannee High has earned back-to-back grades of B and has been a B three of the past four years,” Roush said.
He said historically SHS has received a C or D grade from 1999-2014.
He added that while Suwannee Primary School is not measured by the Florida Standards Assessment, as a feeder school, the school shares in the success of Suwannee Elementary’s A grade.
The 2017-18 school grades are based on four achievement components: English language arts (ELA), mathematics, science and social studies as well as middle school acceleration, learning gains, graduation rate and high school acceleration. Each component is worth 100 points in the overall calculations. The grades are calculated by adding together points earned for each component and dividing the total by the number of available points.
Learning gains are included in the grade calculations and are measured by the FSA.
SES received some decreases in learning gains after significant increases last year.
For the English Language Arts Leaning Gains, SES increased from 58 points to 100 points in 2016-17 but fell to 88 points this year. For the Mathematics Learning Gains, the school dropped a few points from 88 to 83 points.
Suwannee High School, Branford Elementary School and Branford High School also saw small changes in learning gains.
“Areas where we have remained the same or have seen a slight decrease will be areas of focus and opportunities to make growth for the 2018-2019 school year,” Roush said.
