Florida school district grades are out for 2024. How did Duval, St. Johns, Clay schools do?

New state-issued grades released Wednesday kept Duval County schools a “B” school district for another year, although the number of A-graded Duval schools shrank despite a statewide increase.

Thirty-one Duval schools (not counting charter schools) received A grades, down from 40 a year earlier in the second year of a new performance-measuring system that treated last year’s scores as an informational baseline.

Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties were labeled “A” districts, while Baker County schools remained a “B” district like Duval, which has held the same grade since 2015.

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Duval schools scored 61% of possible points on a complex scoring process where reaching 64% makes a school system an “A” district.

The grades were based on testing that happened before Superintendent Christopher Bernier was sworn into office at the start of this month with a direction to make academic improvement a priority.

Florida officials cheered the new statewide scores, with Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. saying the grades “reflect Florida’s steadfast commitment to excellence in education.”

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Statewide, close to 200 more schools earned A grades than last year and about 100 fewer schools received D or F grades, data from the Florida Department of Education showed.

By contrast, the number of D schools in Duval County rose from nine to 11 and a single school, Annie R. Morgan Elementary, received an F, state data said.

Grades of D or F can trigger additional state oversight for “turnaround” efforts and, in some cases, can lead to a school being closed or turned over to a different operator.

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Florida school district grades 2024: Scores for Duval, St. Johns