{"id":28242,"date":"2025-06-30T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28242\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:28:08","slug":"local-counties-lead-the-pack-in-core-subjects-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28242\/","title":{"rendered":"Local counties lead the pack in core subjects \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Recently released data from the Florida Department of Education is providing a better idea of how school students across the state are faring in core subjects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Below are the percentage of students that scored a Level 3 or higher on end-of-year Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) and B.E.S.T. standardized tests in our Northeast Florida counties.<\/p>\n<p>English Language Arts, Grades 3 &#8211; 10<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baker: 53%<\/li>\n<li>Bradford: 53%<\/li>\n<li>Clay: 62%<\/li>\n<li>Columbia: 54%<\/li>\n<li>Duval: 50%<\/li>\n<li>Nassau: 72%<\/li>\n<li>Putnam: 46%<\/li>\n<li>St. Johns: 75%<\/li>\n<li>Union: 54%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The score went up compared to 2024 for all of the above local counties.<\/p>\n<p>Mathematics: Grades 3 &#8211; 8<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baker: 56%<\/li>\n<li>Bradford: 56%<\/li>\n<li>Clay: 64%<\/li>\n<li>Columbia: 60%<\/li>\n<li>Duval: 53%<\/li>\n<li>Nassau: 80%<\/li>\n<li>Putnam: 46%<\/li>\n<li>St. Johns: 78%<\/li>\n<li>Union: 66%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Again, for all our local counties, the score in mathematics either went up or stayed the same compared to 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">See the data breakdowns for yourself <a href=\"https:\/\/origin.fldoe.org\/accountability\/assessments\/k-12-student-assessment\/results\/2025.stml\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/origin.fldoe.org\/accountability\/assessments\/k-12-student-assessment\/results\/2025.stml\"><b>here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">St. Johns County and Nassau County did especially well when you look at the statewide percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Across Florida, the score was 57% in English Language Arts assessments. St. Johns County and Nassau County soared to the top two spots at 75% and 72%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Nassau County also lead the pack in mathematics, ending with an 80% score, while St. Johns ended with 78%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>] <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently released data from the Florida Department of Education is providing a better idea of how school students&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3070,407,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-28242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-classroom","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114774678243355349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}