- December 4, 2025
Flagler Schools missed out on being an A-rated district by two percentage points.
The Florida Department of Education released the 2024-2025 school and district grades on Monday, July 7. Flagler received a B-grade for the fourth year in a row. The district had a score of 62% of total points with a 64 or higher qualifying for an A grade.
The grades are based on five achievement and five learning gains components as well as middle school acceleration, graduation rate and college and career acceleration calculated through assessment results. The last year the district received an A grade was 2019 (Flagler Schools did not receive grades during the COVID year of 2020).
Eight of the district's nine schools received the same grade as last year with one school dropping a grade. Matanzas High School received an A grade for the second year in a row, while Old Kings Elementary received an A for the fourth straight year and Indian Trails Middle School received an A for the seventh consecutive year.
Bunnell Elementary, Rymfire Elementary, Flagler Palm Coast High, Wadsworth Elementary and Belle Terre Elementary all repeated with B grades. Buddy Taylor Middle School dropped from a B to a C. Imagine School at Town Center, the county's charter school, also dropped a grade from B to C. iFlagler received a C grade, its first FDOE grade since 2019.
At the end of the School Board's agenda workshop on Tuesday, July 8, Superintendent LaShakia Moore said that despite not moving up to an A grade, there was a lot for the district to be proud about. FPC improved 30 points from a year ago, which Moore said is not easy to do.
Rymfire improved 19 points, Matanzas and Indian Trails improved nine points and Bunnell improved three points, she said.
"We saw growth in every single achievement component," Moore said. "We had an overall increase in our points by five, but what I am most proud of that may not show initially, our guiding principles and vision and mission talk about all of our students making progress. There have been times we have been an A (district) and we had some poor, poor performing subgroups, so I just want to give you data to show the end can be the same but progress can be made. Several of our schools with African Americans students were an underperforming subgroup. We have zero as of today. For the first time that I can remember that subgroup is not a subgroup that we have on our federal index."
There were also zero Hispanic and English Language Learning subgroups that were underperforming at any Flagler school, and schools that had an area of concern with students with disabilities were reduced from 10 to three, she said.
"Our focus is to ensure that when we get an A, we can celebrate with all of our schools," Moore said. "We don't want to have schools of excellence with underperforming subgroups of students. We want to be able to say that every single group of our students is making progress academically, and we can confidently say that."
