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Science Achievement (School Grades component)

The 'Science Achievement' component of the school grade, as published (percent).

key science_achievement · unit percent · higher is better · rated (peer and district percentiles)

CHECKED AGAINST THE ORIGINAL FILES

Every served value for 2022-23 was re-read from the source file by independent code: 452 of 452 cells agree exactly, 0 disagree, 0 withheld by the publisher on both sides. Per-cell report.

Definition

The 'Science Achievement' component of the school grade, as published (percent).

The School Grades component as published: the percent of tested students scoring level 3 or above on the state assessment for that subject, aggregated across the grades the school serves and including the end-of-course exams the state assigns to that subject.
Blank component cells in the state file (fewer than 10 tested, or the component does not apply to the school type) are not stored: the school simply has no value for that component and year.

Source files

Florida Department of Education, Accountability Reporting (source_id: fldoe_school_grades_2024-25)

Year: 2024-25
File: SchoolGrades25.xlsx (xlsx)
Fetched: 2026-09-15 · sha256 52d3d3d7c218 · 940,291 bytes · fetched via origin host
First-fetch findings: fldoe_school_grades_2024-25.md
Registry note: Dade 470 rows (A 300 / B 103 / C 65 / D 2); components blank when n<10. Prior years SchoolGrades{yy}.xlsx (xls before 2022); no 2020; 2023 = "Informational Baseline"; 2026 grading scale changes (GradingScalesOverview26.pdf). The graduation-rate and college-and-career-acceleration components are the state's LAGGED (prior-year) measures, stored here under the grade year they count toward.

Loader: scripts/loaders/miami/school_grades.ts · registry: docs/cities/miami/sources.yaml

What is served

Years: 2018-19, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25
2,234 school-year cells across 477 schools; 0 stored as suppressed (publisher withheld)
2,061 cells carry a peer-group percentile (all-students rows of schools with a peer group)

What it cannot show

A school-level component pools grades with different pass rates, so two schools with the same component can have different grade mixes.
The state's component excludes students who were not enrolled for the full year at the school (the accountability 'full-year enrolled' rule); the per-grade State Report of Schools counts every tested student.

Comparability across years

Florida replaced the FSA with the FAST progress-monitoring assessments in 2022-23 and reset the achievement scales; 2022-23 is a new baseline and results before it are not on the same scale. No grades were issued for 2019-20. In 2020-21 districts could opt in to grades under Emergency Order 2021-EO-02; that exceptional year is excluded here.

How it was checked

Every served number runs through the four-check taxonomy described on the methodology page: (i) completeness, (ii) an exact re-read of the file by independent Python, (iii-b) a second publisher where one exists, (iv) recomputation of derived values.

(ii) Base case — outcomes track
Years	Common cells	Matches	Mismatches	Suppressed	Status
2022-23	452	452	0	0	PASS

Harness: methodology and known gaps · components · closure-track verdict (93ea735c8bb9) · outcomes verdict (REVIEW)

In the ratings

Schools are ranked on this metric within their peer group (40 nearest schools on demographics and size, same level, sector and magnet status) and district-wide, with the rank inverted where lower is better so a high percentile always means a better outcome. See outliers and movers for this metric, and the ratings overview for how peer groups are built.

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Corrections log

None yet. Corrections to published figures are recorded here with the date and the affected numbers.