St. Johns County School District

St. Johns County School District (SJCSD) is the public school district for St. Johns County, Florida. St. Johns County is home to three of the nation's best high schools (Nease 91st, Bartram 327th and St. Augustine 421st) according to Newsweek Magazine in 2008.^[1]

History

1866 - St. Joseph Academy was founded and is the oldest Catholic high school in Florida.
1885 – Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind begins as a state-supported residential school for deaf and blind children in Florida.
1924 – Hastings High School is opened for farm children in the southwest corner of St. Johns county
1959 – St. Augustine High School is the St. Johns county public high school
1981 – Nease High School was opened to alleviate overcrowding at SAHS.
2000 – Pedro Menendez High School and Bartram Trail High School are opened to alleviate overcrowding at SAHS and Nease, respectively.
2008 – Creekside High School and Ponte Vedra High School are opened to alleviate overcrowding at Bartram Trail and Nease, respectively.

School board

The county administrative offices are located at 40 Orange Street in St. Augustine, Florida. The superintendent of SJCSD is Dr. Joseph Joyner, who administrates the daily operation of public schools in the county. The position of superintendent is appointed by the St. Johns County School Board, a body of five elected officers, each board member representing a specific geographic area. The current School Board members, in order of district number, are Beverly Slough, Tommy Allen, Bill Mignon, Bill Fehling and Carla Wright. Board members are elected in staggered four years terms with 2-term limits; districts 1, 3 & 5 elected during midterm election cycles (next in 2018) and districts 2 & 4 elected during presidential cycles (next in 2016).

Growth

With the tremendous population growth, the number of St. Johns County academic high schools tripled between 2000 and 2008. For the 2007-2008 school year, the district had an enrollment of 27,514 students, which according to the St. Augustine Record continued its ranking as "one of the fastest-growing school districts in the state" of Florida.^[2] That figure reflected a four percent increase (1,040 students) from the previous year.^[2]


Year	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Enrollment	20,918	21,910	23,090	24,320	25,757	26,474	27,514

FCAT

Florida Public K-12 Schools are graded based on data from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) provided by Florida Department of Education. St. Johns County schools received the following marks:^[3]


Grade	"A"	"B"	"C"	"D"	"F"
Schools	23	5	1	0	0

References

External links

St. Johns County School District website

St. Johns County School District schools

High schools	Bartram Trail High School Creekside High School Pedro Menendez High School Allen D. Nease High School Ponte Vedra High School St. Augustine High School St. Johns Technical High School

Middle schools	Alice B. Landrum Fruit Cove Gamble Rogers Pacetti Bay R. J. Murray Sebastian Switzerland Point

Elementary schools	Crookshank Cunningham Creek Durbin Creek Hickory Creek Julington Creek Ketterlinus Mill Creek Ocean Palms Osceola Ocean Palms Otis A. Mason PVPV - Rawlings R. B. Hunt South Woods Timberlin Creek W. D. Hartley Wards Creek Webster

K-8 schools	Liberty Pines Academy Patriot Oaks Academy Valley Ridge Academy

Private schools	St. Gerard Campus School St. Joseph Academy

Alternative schools	Gaines Alternative Program at the Evelyn B. Hamblen Center Transition Program at the Evelyn B. Hamblen Center Hastings Youth Academy St. Johns Regional Detention Center

Charter schools	First Coast Technical High School The Academy of Business and Leadership Education (ABLE)

State schools	Florida School for the Deaf and Blind

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