St. Johns County School District (SJCSD) is the public school district

School district

School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...

 for St. Johns County, Florida

St. Johns County, Florida

St. Johns County is a county located in northeastern Florida. As of the 2010 census, the population was 190,039. The county seat is St. Augustine. Due to the inclusion of Ponte Vedra Beach, it is one of the highest-income counties in the United States....

. St. Johns County is home to three of the nation's best high schools (Nease

Allen D. Nease Senior High School

Allen D. Nease High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in Ponte Vedra, Florida that was established in 1981. The school is a member of the International Baccalaureate program. The principal is Mr...

 91st, Bartram

Bartram Trail High School

Bartram Trail High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in northwest St. Johns County, Florida that opened in 2000...

 327th and St. Augustine

St. Augustine High School (St. Augustine, Florida)

St. Augustine High School is the oldest public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in Saint Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida. Its students are grades 9 through 12...

 421st) according to Newsweek Magazine in 2008 .

History

• 1866 - St. Joseph Academy
  St. Joseph Academy (St. Augustine, Florida)
  St. Joseph Academy Catholic High School is a private Catholic high school in St. Augustine, Florida. It is located in and administered by the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine. The oldest Catholic high school in Florida, it was founded in 1866....
  
   was founded and is the oldest Catholic high school in Florida.
• 1885 – Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind
  Florida School for the Deaf and Blind
  The Florida School for the Deaf and Blind is a state-supported boarding school for deaf and blind children established in 1885, in St. Augustine, Florida, USA.-History:...
  
   begins as a state-supported residential school
  Boarding school
  A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
  
   for deaf and blind
  Blindness
  Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
  
   children in Florida.
• 1959 – St. Augustine High School
  St. Augustine High School (St. Augustine, Florida)
  St. Augustine High School is the oldest public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in Saint Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida. Its students are grades 9 through 12...
  
   is the St. Johns county public high school
• 1924 – Hastings High School
  Hastings High School (Florida)
  The Hastings High School is an historic public high school in the St. Johns County School District. It is located at 6195 South Main Street in Hastings, Florida, in southwest St. Johns County, Florida.-History:...
  
   is opened for farm children in the southwest corner of St. Johns county
• 1981 – Nease High School
  Allen D. Nease Senior High School
  Allen D. Nease High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in Ponte Vedra, Florida that was established in 1981. The school is a member of the International Baccalaureate program. The principal is Mr...
  
   was opened to alleviate overcrowding at SAHS.
• 2000 – Pedro Menendez High School
  Pedro Menendez High School
  Pedro Menendez High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in southern St. Johns County, Florida . It was named for Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a sixteenth century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter who founded St...
  
   and Bartram Trail High School
  Bartram Trail High School
  Bartram Trail High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in northwest St. Johns County, Florida that opened in 2000...
  
   are opened to alleviate overcrowding at SAHS and Nease, respectively.
• 2008 – Creekside High School
  Creekside High School (Florida)
  Creekside High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in northwest St. Johns County, Florida . Creekside High School was constructed to relieve overcrowding at Bartram Trail High School.- Overview :...
  
   and Ponte Vedra High School
  Ponte Vedra High School
  Ponte Vedra High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in northeast St. Johns County, Florida. The high school was constructed to relieve overcrowding at Allen D. Nease Senior High School.-Overview:...
  
   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

St. Augustine, Florida

St. Augustine is a city in the northeast section of Florida and the county seat of St. Johns County, Florida, United States. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorer and admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, it is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city and port in the continental United...

. 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 2010) and districts 2 & 4 elected during presidential cycles (next in 2008).

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. That figure reflected a four percent increase (1,040 students) from the previous year.

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

Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test

The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or the FCAT , is the standardized test used in the primary and secondary public schools of Florida...

 (FCAT) provided by Florida Department of Education

Florida Department of Education

The Florida Department of Education is the state education agency of Florida. It governs public education and manages funding and testing for local educational agencies . It is headquartered in the Turlington Building in Tallahassee.The Florida Commissioner of Education manages the day-to-day...

. St. Johns County schools received the following marks:

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

External links

• St. Johns County School District website