By Joanna Blaz, Times Correspondent
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Principal Clint Herbic announces the school’s A grade to students Tuesday.
They crunched the numbers and targeted students and subjects. In the end they boosted their FCAT scores, graduated more at-risk student and prepared more students for college-level courses.
The result?
Tarpon Springs High School's first A. Up from a D.
And just like that the school got a mental boost.
"(The grade change) makes me want to go to school every day," said freshman Sheridan Markham, shortly after state education officials released the 2009-2010 high school grades Tuesday.
Tarpon was one of seven traditional Pinellas County high schools to earn an A — and the one that logged in the biggest leap, jumping three letter grades.
In Pinellas and across the state, high school grades rose sharply, thanks in part to a new grading formula that for the first ...