Katina Kramer grew up in Avon Park and attended Avon Park Middle School where she returns today to meet the staff in preparation for taking over as principal next school year. ...more

March 17, 2009

Due to a drop in student enrollment and expected cuts in funding, Superintendent Wally Cox recommended cutting 45.5 full-time instructional and administrative positions in the 2009-10 budget including 43 (5 percent) school-level teaching positions. ...more

February 26, 2009

Now in its third year, Freshman Foundation data shows mixed progress in improving attendance, grades and discipline, while lowering the dropout rate of the county's ninth-graders. ...more

February 3, 2009

Forty-one-year educator, Avon Park Middle School Principal Dan Johnson, has announced he will retire at the end of the school year. ...more

January 27, 2009

With the 2008 hurricane season coming to a close on Nov. 30, Superintendent of Schools Wally Cox has recommended not making up the one day schools were closed due to Tropical Storm Fay. ...more

November 18, 2008