First Coast High School

Because this is our neighborhood school and we didn t want to bus our kid into a magnet school we gave First Coast High a try. I would not recommend this school if your child s education is important to you. If your kid goes to school because you are required by law to make them go then this school will help your child get by. If your child wants to make something of them self in life, find another school even if it means bussing into a magnet school.
--Submitted by a parent

This is the most disorganized school that I've ever been associated with.Communication between administratIon and parents is virtually non existent. Good luck having your call returned. Fights and assaults are commonplace with little follow through from staff.Some teachers seem to have great difficulty in keeping up with work that has been turned in resulting in erronious grading.If you have another choice I highly recommend that you place your child some place other than FCHS. It's sad that the high school experience has had a negative impact on my child
--Submitted by a parent

our school has a lot of great teahers that are there for the childrens education.. as parents we need alot of them to be involved in thier childs education ... teachers cannot do it by their self.. as a parent i am so invoved with my childrens schools.. first coast has an awesome faculty... always able to answer any questions we have if they cant they direct us to the right person who can. but parent involvement is a must..
--Submitted by a parent

I go to First Coast. I have Since Freshmen year & I have found First Coast to be a good school for the only school in my area. Im in National Honor Society & it looks good for when I graduate. The teachers are really good I have a 4.5 GPA. I dont know why FC has such bad reviews because its actually good. Students from ALL of the Northside come to Coast so that can make the school bad but if you ask me I rather go to First Coast than Andrew Jackson or Ribualt schools of that nature. So if someone is saying that the school wouldnt look good on your college application itactually does if your making good grades that makes the school letter grade go up. But at FC there are alot of students that dont care and make HORRIBLE grades which makes First Coast look bad.
--Submitted by a student

This school has numerous students lingering in the hall ways seemiling nowhere to go for whole class periods. Open gambling was observed in one classroom. Numerous student fights during the week. Maybe it was a bad week, but things seemed to be a normal everyday occurrance, judging by the attitude of School faculty attitudes during observed events. Also, numerous pregnant students. The overall observation is this enviroment is not conducive to an educational atmosphere.
--Submitted by a parent

Okay I am a senior at First Coast High School, this is my official second year here because I transferred from Sandalwood. For starters, this school has had problems with the students discipline because a handful of them were brought in from other schools who have been known for their continuity of being an F school. Of course if you get all those students and throw them into FCHS then the grades will decrease and violence increases. Anyway, I am a member of the National Honors Society and I was just recently accepted to one of the top ranked universities in the country, probably the same university a 'private school' student is attending... its not where you're getting your education from , its all about how you take advantage of the oppurtunities given to you. I'm a public school student, cant wait to see your private school kid in college (:
--Submitted by a student

This is a top notch High School. From the ladies in the office, to the marching band, to the faculty, to the student body, this school has been the best school for my children and grandchildren!
--Submitted by a parent

i went to this school from 1999-2003 it was a great school then and still is i have three family members in this school right now, no school is perfect but fchs does what it can to make sure students are safe and learning, if the school board would stop sending all the bad kids to the school from falling schools it would have smaller class sizes and would be a lot more safer but as long as they let the bad ones come in it is what it is, as far as the staff there still helpful with anything they can do, but every school has there limits, maybe the ones who said this school is horrible should look at themselfs or the kids before jumping on here and writing things that arent true!
--Submitted by a parent

A horrible school!! You cannot count on faculty staff. They always mistaken my daughter with someone else.
--Submitted by a parent

I have a hard time believing you can rate parent involvement so low when the school will not let us get invoved. We have been trying for 2 years and have been unsuccessful.
--Submitted by a parent