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The purpose of the Student Progression Plan is to present to school staff, parents, and interested community members a guide to student progression which reflects state statute, school district policies and administrative procedures. The changes in this document reflect statute and policy changes as well as a slightly altered format designed to make the document more “user friendly.” Student Progression Plan Steering Committee members for the 2025-2026 document include the following:

Paula Renfro, Chief Officer, Academic Services
Wendy Dunlap, Executive Director, Acceleration and Student Support Programs
Dean Ledford, Principal
Julie Humphreys, Principal
Claire St. Amand, Principal
Nicole Brown, Specialist, School Counseling
Na’toria Campbell, Specialist, School Counseling
LaConya Conner, Specialist, School Counseling
Dionne Clayton, Specialist, School Counseling

In June 1976, the Florida State Legislature enacted the Educational Accountability Act of 1976. It requires that each school district in the State of Florida establish a comprehensive program for student progression. The Student Progression Plan is a contract delineating what a student must know and be able to do to be promoted and what the district will do to help the student meet the requirements for promotion. It is the responsibility of:

a) The school board and district administration to provide students with effective instructional and remedial programs that monitor progress, promote continuous achievement, and make provisions for individual differences;
b) Students to assume responsibility for learning, being at school and in class, and to engage in instruction;
c) Parents for their students’ attendance and for promoting an interest in learning and ensuring their students’ proper conduct while at school;
d) The principal for required records and reports; and
e) Teachers for providing effective instruction and remediation and documenting instruction in and student’s mastery of the appropriate state standards.

The district is committed to the implementation of a Response to Instruction/Intervention framework to integrate/align efforts to improve educational outcomes and to meet the academic/behavioral needs of all students. The district will provide high quality instruction/intervention matched to student needs and will use learning rate and level of performance to inform instructional decisions – including decisions regarding promotion, acceleration, retention, and remediation. Response to Instruction/Intervention is a “data-based decision making” process applied to education. A four-step problemsolving method and the systematic use of assessment data – at the district, school, grade, class, individual level – will guide decisions about the allocation of resources and intensity of instruction/interventions needed to improve learning and/or behavior.

Each student’s progression from one grade to another shall be determined, in part, upon satisfactory performance in English Language Arts, science, social studies, and mathematics, and the district school board policies shall facilitate student achievement. Each student and his or her parent shall be informed of that student’s academic progress. Students shall have access to educational options that provide academically challenging coursework or accelerated instruction pursuant to s.1002.3105 F.S.

Florida Statute 1008.25 defines the information that must be included in the Student Progression Plan:

a) Include criteria that emphasize student reading proficiency in kindergarten through grade 3 and provide targeted instructional support for students with identified deficiencies in English Language Arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. High school shall use all available assessment results, including the results of statewide, standardized English Language Arts assessments and end-of-course assessments for Algebra I and Geometry, to advise students of any identified deficiencies and to provide appropriate postsecondary preparatory instruction before high school graduation. The results of evaluations used to monitor a student’s progress in grades K-12 must be provided to the student’s teacher in a timely manner and as otherwise required by law. Thereafter, evaluation results must be provided to the student’s parent in a timely manner. When available, instructional personnel must be provided with information on student achievement of standards and benchmarks in order to improve instruction.
b) List the student eligibility and procedural requirements established by the school district for whole-grade promotion, mid-year promotion, and subject-matter acceleration, and notify parents and students of the school district’s process by which a parent may request student participation in whole-grade promotion, mid- year promotion, and subject-matter acceleration, pursuant to s. 1002.3105 F.S.
c) Advise parents and students of the early and accelerated graduation options under ss. 1003.4281 and 1003.429 F.S.
d) List or incorporate by reference, all dual enrollment courses contained within the dual enrollment articulation agreement established pursuant to 1007.271(21) F.S.

The Duval County School Board shall allocate remedial and supplemental instruction resources to students in the following priority:

a. Students who are deficient in reading by the end of Grade 3.
b. Students who fail to meet performance levels required for promotion consistent with the district school board’s plan for student progression required in paragraph (2)(b).

The Duval County School Board must annually report to the parent of each student the progress of the student toward achieving state and district expectations for proficiency in reading, writing, science, and mathematics. The district school board must report to the parent the student’s results on each statewide assessment test. The evaluation of each student’s progress must be based upon the student’s classroom work, observations, tests, district and state assessments, and other relevant information. Progress reporting must be provided to the parent in writing in a format adopted by the district school board.

The Duval County School Board must annually publish in the local newspaper and on the district website, the following information on the prior school year:

a) The provisions of this section relating to public school student progression and the district school board’s policies and procedures on student retention and promotion.
b) By grade, the number and percentage of all students in grades 3 through 10 performing at Levels 1 and 2 on the statewide, standardized English Language Arts assessment.
c) By grade, the number and percentage of all students retained in kindergarten through grade 10.
d) Information on the total number of students who were promoted for good cause, by each category of good cause as specified in paragraph (6)(b).
e) Any revisions to the district school board’s policies and procedures on student retention and promotion from the prior year