A bill that would change how Florida evaluates the performance of its public schools was reported favorably by the Senate PreK-12 Education Appropriations Subcommittee on Monday.

The proposal would revise the state’s A–F school grading system by replacing the current 100-point calculation scale with a simplified 10-point scale beginning in the 2025–26 academic year.

Under current law, school grades are determined by assigning point values to various academic indicators, including student achievement and learning gains on statewide assessments. These points are totaled on a 100-point scale, and schools are graded based on where their score falls within a fixed range. The bill would eliminate that 100-point system and instead adopt a 10-point grading structure, where a school that earns 90 to 100 percent of the available points would receive an “A,” 80 to 89 percent a “B,” and so on.

According to the proposal, the change is intended to make the school grading process easier to understand while aligning Florida’s accountability model with common percentage-based grading systems used in other states.

If the legislation is adopted, the new grading structure would first apply to data from the 2025–26 school year, with accountability grades released in 2026.

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