Seminole County Public Schools is the best in Florida at preparing high school students for college STEM majors, according to the STEM Career Prep Index for Fall 2023. Seminole County has been ranked number one every year that the index has been published.
The STEM Career Prep Index is the sum of the percentages of each district’s high school students taking chemistry, physics, precalculus and calculus. The numbers are extracted from the Florida Department of Education’s Know Your Data Advanced Reports Portal, which is the nation’s leader in reporting course enrollment data.
Chemistry, physics, precalculus and calculus are recommended by university faculty and professional organizations for high school students who aspire to careers in a wide range of STEM fields such as engineering, meteorology, computer science, biology, chemistry and architecture.
Seminole County Public Schools hasn’t been resting on its STEM Career Prep mountaintop. Instead, it continues to improve. During the last two years, the district’s physics enrollment has increased by 6.1%. During the same two years, the physics enrollment in all of Florida’s public high schools has declined by 10.1%. And Seminole County continues to push for more with its program to have its three Physics Buses visit elementary and middle schools in the district. That’s an effort that other Florida school districts should consider copying.
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