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Welcome to Florence City Schools’ website. 

On behalf of Board of Education members and school system employees, I extend an invitation for you to visit our schools and experience, first hand, the many wonderful opportunities available to students in our school system. 

The Florence City Schools reflect the commitment and expectations of our city’s residents, who have made education a high priority for their children. This strong local base of support has enabled our school system to offer one of the highest teacher salary schedules in the state, attracting an excellent teaching and administrative staff. Our local base of support has also allowed us to provide the most extensive curriculum of any school system, public or private, in Northwest Alabama. 

Ours was among the first school systems in the state to earn accreditation from both the Alabama State Department of Education and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. And, since that time, the school system has continued to meet and exceed accreditation standards. 
Networked classroom-to-classroom with fiber-optic cabling, our school system successfully incorporates computer technology within the instructional program - varying from computer-assisted instruction in the elementary schools to multimedia presentations and computer-generated design in middle schools to programming and supercomputing in high schools.  

However, computers have not replaced classroom teachers in our schools. One hundred percent of our teachers are certified within the area in which they teach. Our schools rely on classroom teachers more than ever as the “gatekeepers” of knowledge who help students access and process information in a world in which information is changing at an ever-increasing rate. To assist them with this challenge, our teachers have been provided cutting-edge facilities and materials as they offer a curriculum which includes the traditional core courses (reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies) as well as foreign languages, fine arts, career-technical courses and Advanced Placement courses (courses offered to enable high school students to gain college credit while in high school). Our schools are also staffed, equipped and eager to accommodate disabled students as well as those with a variety of exceptionalities. 

As you may have gathered, I am extremely proud of our school system - its students, parents, teachers and administrators - and the curricula and services it provides. I would appreciate an opportunity to tell you more about our schools. If you are moving into the Florence area, I encourage you to call me at (256) 768-3016.  I will be happy to meet with you and arrange for a tour of our schools and community.

Sincerely,
 
 Kendy Behrends
Superintendent of Florence City Schools

Main Contact, Superintendent's Office:

Beth Dickerson
 bdickerson@fcs.k12.al.us
Secretary to Superintendent
 
 
Accreditation
 
All public schools in Florence are fully accredited by SACS CASI (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement), one of the first 150 school systems in America to be comprehensively accredited as a district.

Equal Education/Employment Opportunity Statement

It is the official policy of the Florence City School District that no person shall on the grounds of race, color, disability, sex, religion, creed, national origin or age, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program, activity or employment.