Broward schools earn A rating for third straight year
Broward schools marked a third straight A rating as 26 campuses jumped from B to A and C-rated schools fell to 34. Leaders gathered in Fort Lauderdale to press the gains.
Broward County Public Schools marked its third straight A rating at a noon news conference Wednesday at the Kathleen C. Wright Administration Center in Fort Lauderdale, where district leaders highlighted another year of broad gains across campus grades. The district first earned an A in 2024, its first since 2011, and repeated the result in 2025 before extending the run into 2026.
The district’s latest summary showed 96% of district-operated schools either maintained or improved their grade. BCPS posted 110 A grades, 69 B grades and 34 C grades, and said more than half of its schools were A-rated. It also had no D- or F-rated schools for a second straight year, a result that placed Broward among only two of Florida’s five largest school districts without any D- or F-rated schools.
The strongest movement came from schools that climbed out of the middle of the grading scale. BCPS said 26 schools rose from B to A and eight moved from C to A, while another 32 improved from C to B. The schools that jumped from C to A were Cypress Elementary, Deerfield Beach High, Horizon Elementary, Liberty Elementary, North Side Elementary, Ramblewood Elementary, Rock Island Elementary and Sunland Park Academy. The district also said the number of C-rated schools fell sharply, dropping from 70 in 2023-24 to 34 in 2024-25.
Superintendent Dr. Howard Hepburn and Broward County School Board members were expected to use the celebration to push the district’s next set of targets, including academic excellence, teaching and learning, and preparation for a strong school year ahead. The event was livestreamed on the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance’s site, widening the audience for a result that district leaders have tied to family confidence, enrollment decisions and the county’s broader education reputation.
Broward County Public Schools is the sixth-largest district in the nation and the second-largest in Florida. It serves more than 236,000 students in 239 schools and employs about 27,800 people, making the A rating a measure not just of district pride but of how much of Broward’s public system has shifted upward under Florida’s annual A-F accountability model.
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