Frostproof was the only high school to improve by two letter grades. One other, Harrison, improved by one grade. Principal David Lewis credits Frostproof's grade to a culmination of efforts. We were not surprised to see this grade. Frostproof went from a C to an A at the high school level and from a C to a B in middle school.
Schools have more than pride riding on grades.
Blake Elementary in Lakeland, which had an F in 1999, was able to maintain the C it received in 2000, much to the relief of Principal Charlene Richardson-Brinson. We have another year of happiness. Inwood is also the only Title I school in Florida to have received an A for three years, she said. I is federal aid that goes to schools with a majority of low-income students. Among the disappointments in Polk are the D that Alta Vista Elementary maintained from last year, and the drops to D's by Dundee Elementary and Gibbons Street Elementary in Bartow.