Martin County School District reports 'A' rating, high graduation rates and construction milestones
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District officials highlighted the district's return to an A rating, improvements in early‑learning readiness, strong graduation rates across high schools and active facilities projects including Stewart Middle near completion and design work for Murray Middle.
Martin County School District coordinators presented a progress report that highlighted academics, student services and ongoing facilities work.
The district said it "served more than 2,400,000 meals" in the reported period and completed more than 60 maintenance projects. The district noted an A rating for the 2025–26 school year and reported graduation rates of 98.6% at Jensen Beach High School, 96.8% at Martin County High School and 94.7% at South Fork High School.
District staff described operational improvements including creating a manager for Medicaid and ESE services that they said helped recover reimbursements (staff cited amounts in the low millions for Medicaid reimbursements); finance changes included reinstating surplus auctions and stricter procurement controls.
On facilities, Mark Secrest, director of facilities and planning, said Stewart Middle School was at about 99% completion and that Murray Middle School is through schematic design with design development and construction documents scheduled through spring and May depending on the schedule. Secrest also described an ice‑storage energy plant tied to campus cooling and a new cafeteria/multipurpose facility at the Stewart project.
The district said it will continue to provide detailed reports on school‑level needs (for example, free and reduced‑price lunch counts and reading‑level data) at subsequent briefings and to interested commissioners.