2026 Florida School Grades: St. Johns Earns 76% of Points, Duval Has 64 A Schools and All 4 Northeast Florida Districts Get an A

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - All four of Northeast Florida's largest school districts earned an A from the state for the 2025-26 school year, but the numbers behind those letters vary widely. St. Johns County earned 76% of possible points, the highest of Florida's 67 districts, while Duval County earned 65%. The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) released the grades July 1, 2026, and its posted data files are current as of Sept. 1, 2026.

Duval, St. Johns, Clay and Nassau also each earned an A the year before, according to the state's district grades file. Statewide, 34 districts earned an A, 23 earned a B and 10 earned a C. No district received a D or an F.

The four districts side by side

The table below uses FDOE's 2026 district grades file and school grades file. School counts include traditional public schools, charter schools and district virtual programs that received a grade. Districts are ranked here by the share of possible points they earned.

Duval has one more school listed with an "I," which marks an incomplete grade. Nassau's 892 points ranked second in the state, just ahead of Lafayette County at 891. Neighboring Baker County earned a B with 63% of possible points, according to the same file.

How each district's schools moved

St. Johns County went from 37 A schools in 2025 to 40 in 2026, and its count of B schools dropped from seven to five. Its only C school is James A. Webster Elementary School, which earned 52% of points after a B last year. Jacksonville Today reported in July that St. Johns posted the most points of any district in Florida.

Clay County added three A schools, rising from 26 to 29, and its C schools fell from four to two. The district had one D school in 2025 and none in 2026. Its two C schools are Keystone Heights Elementary, which dropped from a B, and Florida Cyber Charter Academy at Clay, which rose from a D.

Nassau County had 13 A schools and one B school in 2026, after all 14 of its graded schools earned an A in 2025. The B went to West Nassau County High School, which earned 62% of points. That falls short of the 65% threshold for an A at a high school.

Duval County Public Schools added A schools, going from 59 to 64, and had no F schools after one in 2025. Its count of C schools rose from 52 to 66, while B schools fell from 53 to 37. Duval is far larger than its neighbors, with 173 schools in the state file compared with 46 each in St. Johns and Clay.

Top-scoring and lowest-scoring schools

Among the four districts, the highest share of points went to Jacksonville Beach Elementary School in Duval at 92%. Duval's Samuel W. Wolfson High School followed at 90% and Stanton College Preparatory at 87%. The top schools in the other districts were Allen D. Nease Senior High School in St. Johns at 86%, Orange Park Elementary and Robert M. Paterson Elementary in Clay at 83% each, and Bryceville Elementary School in Nassau at 81%. Every one of those schools also earned an A in 2025.

None of the four districts had an F school in 2026. All five D schools in the four districts are in Duval, according to the FDOE file. Three of them are charter schools:

• San Jose Primary School, a charter elementary: 32% of points, a D for the second straight year.
• Wayman Academy of the Arts, a charter elementary: 34%, up from an F in 2025.
• Biltmore Elementary School: 37%, down from a C.
• Highlands Estates Academy: 39%, down from a C.
• Florida Cyber Charter Academy, a combination school: 42%, a D for the second straight year.

Statewide, the file lists 1,741 A schools, 884 B schools, 794 C schools, 24 D schools and six F schools. FDOE's July 1 release said 76% of all schools earned an A or B, up from 71% in 2024-25. The July release said 31 schools earned a D or F, while the Sept. 1 file lists 30.

What a school grade measures

FDOE says a school's grade can include up to 12 components, each worth up to 100 points. Five measure achievement, meaning the share of full-year students who passed state tests in English language arts, Grade 3 English language arts, math, science and social studies. Four measure learning gains in English language arts and math, including gains for the lowest-performing 25% of students.

Middle schools also earn points for students passing high school-level end-of-course exams or industry certifications. High schools add a graduation rate component and a college and career acceleration component. The grade is based on the percentage of available points a school earns, and schools must test at least 95% of their students.

The cutoffs differ by school type. Elementary schools need 62% of points for an A, middle schools need 64% and high and combination schools need 65%. A D starts at 32% for elementary schools, 34% for middle schools and 35% for high and combination schools.

How to look up your child's school

Parents can find any public school's grade, along with test scores and other data, through FDOE's Know Your Schools site. The same site offers District Report Cards and a State Report Card for comparison. These steps start from the state's official pages:

• Go to edudata.fldoe.org and choose School Report Cards.
• Find your child's school, then open its report card to see the grade and related data.
• Choose District Report Cards on the same site to see Duval, St. Johns, Clay or Nassau as a whole.
• For the full statewide spreadsheet, go to FDOE's school grades page and download School Grades (Excel) or District Grades (Excel).

The spreadsheet lists every school's grade history back to 1999, which lets parents see whether a school's grade has been steady or has changed. FDOE updated its results packet and its grading scale overview on Sept. 8, 2026, so the posted files may differ slightly from figures reported in July. Families with questions about a specific school's results can contact the school or its district office.