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Sarasota News Leader December 27, 2013 Page 73 SARASOTA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS RECEIVE A AND B GRADES All Sarasota County public high schools "We are pleased that all our high schools are received A or B grades for the 2012-13 school A or B schools," said Superintendent Lori White in the release, "but there is certainly year, the district has reported. room for improvement. We will redouble our The information was released Dec. 18 by the efforts to monitor every student's pathway to Florida Department of Education. Grades for graduation and help those who struggle acaelementary and middle schools were released demically to reach their full potential." in July; Sarasota County continues to be Fifty percent of a school's grade is based on graded an A district overall, a news release 2013 state assessment scores, including the notes. Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test Pine View School, Suncoast Polytechnical High School and Sarasota Military Academy — a public charter school — received A grades. All other district high schools received B grades, the release notes. (FCAT), and 50 percent is based on the school's graduation rate, the number of students taking advanced-placement courses, the number of students who pass advanced-placement examinations and indicators of student readiness for college, the release points out. According to the state's high school graduation formula, high schools that would otherwise earn an A must also meet a requirement to improve the annual graduation rate of at-risk students, the release says. "This requirement affected the majority of Sarasota County high schools that earned a B for 2012-13." Oak Park School, a district facility for students with severe or multiple exceptionalities from the elementary grade level through high school, was not graded, the release notes. Most students at Oak Park School do not participate in the FCAT, but instead take the Florida Alternate Assessment, the release adds. A chart compares Sarasota County high school grades. Image courtesy Sarasota County Schools