gradesSherry Digmon

Local schools improve
By SHERRY DIGMON News Staff Writer Overall, Escambia County public schools improved academically from 2016-17 to 2017-18, but it was a slight improvement and not enough to get the schools from a C to a B. The Alabama Department of Education released the school systems’ and individual schools’ grades Monday, December 31. Three schools in Escambia County earned a grade of B, but those grades were not enough to pull…