State releases school rankings; A.U.C. earns top spot in Florida

Written by Demetrios Demopoulos | 08 February 2012

On Monday, January 30th, the Florida Department of Education released for the first time individual school rankings for all public elementary, middle, and high schools of the state. The 2011 rankings are based on each school's score in the state's Accountability Report. For the high schools the score is a combination of several FCAT components and non-FCAT components (such as graduation rate, AP exams, College Readiness Indicators).

Based on the FCAT components, the Archimedean Upper Conservatory ranked first among 441 public high schools in 2011 with a score of 714 points (followed by the Collegiate HS at Northwest Florida State College with 711 points and MAST Academy with 703 points). For our young program the first place in the state is one more indication that good work ethics and careful planning can bring tremendous successes. The credit for these superb results goes to all Upper Conservatory's faculty and students for their hard work and dedication and to all the parents and families for the continuous support.

For the non-FCAT components the scores are based on the performance of the students of last year's graduating class. The Upper Conservatory was not given any score in 2011 for these components since the school have not had a graduating class yet. It is with great excitement that we are looking forward to our first class (class of 2012) graduating this June.

For detailed scores and reports on Florida's High School Rankings go here (you can find the scores for Archimedean Upper Conservatory if you scroll towards the bottom of the page where the schools without the graduation components are listed).

Two Blue Ribbon Schools on Campus

Written by George Kafkoulis | 02 October 2011

Dear Archimedean Schools Students Parents Employees and Friends

I am happy to announce that our Archimedean Academy and our Archimedean Middle Conservatoryreceived from the US Department of Education the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award for year 2011.Out of more than 4,000 elementary, middle,  high schools, public and private in the State of Florida,ten received the award this year. Two out of these ten schools are ours.Both of our schools received the award in the High Performance category. The Archimedean Academy was noted as High Performance with more that 40% educationally disadvantaged students and the Archimedean Middle Conservatory was the only middle school  from the State of Florida that got the Blue Ribbon Award. This is a proud moment of this wonderful Archimedean Schools Project.

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