Schools in Gainesville
Alachua County Public Schools earned a district grade of B for the 2025-26 school year, falling just three percentage points short of an A -- its third straight B since Florida resumed post-COVID school grading. Sixteen schools earned an A grade in 2025-26, alongside 14 B, 11 C, four D, and one F school.
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Learn more2025-26 District Grade: B, Just Short of A
Alachua County Public Schools earned a district grade of B for the 2025-26 school year, falling just three percentage points short of an A, per Main Street Daily News and AOL/local reporting. For 2024-25, the district also earned a B, missing an A by two percentage points -- the district's third consecutive B since Florida resumed school and district grading after COVID. Florida's grading system was modified to require more points for A and B grades, making the district's repeated near-A performance a genuinely harder bar to clear than in earlier grading cycles.
A Real Spread of Individual School Grades
Within the 2025-26 cycle, 16 Alachua County schools earned an A grade, 14 earned a B, 11 earned a C, four earned a D, and one earned an F, per district and local reporting -- a genuinely mixed picture even under a district-wide B, and worth checking at the individual-school level rather than assuming uniform performance.
What This Means for a Relocating Family
The district-wide B grade and the number of A-graded schools are genuine positives worth weighing, but families should check the specific school(s) their address feeds into directly via the Florida DOE school-grades portal or the Alachua County Public Schools website, since performance varies meaningfully by individual school -- including four D-graded and one F-graded school in the same 2025-26 cycle.
Key takeaways
- Alachua County Public Schools earned a district grade of B for 2025-26, three percentage points short of an A -- its third consecutive B since Florida resumed post-COVID school grading, under a modified, more rigorous statewide scale.
- The 2025-26 cycle included 16 A-graded schools, 14 B, 11 C, four D, and one F -- a genuinely mixed picture within the district-wide B.
- Check the specific school(s) serving your address directly via Florida DOE or Alachua County Public Schools -- performance varies meaningfully by individual school, not uniformly across the district.
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