Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test grades are expected to be released soon, and Duval County's superintendent has already painted a bleak picture of what parents and students should expect.

School officials warned that FCAT changes could lead to more failing schools.

Some schools, like Ribault High School, have been on the list of failing schools before, but this year Superintendent Joseph Wise said the state could hand out F's to as many as 15 area schools.

"It's sad. It's very sad," said parent Tirita Jones. "It just feels like it's failing the students and the parents. I am not happy with that."

The state has not yet determined how it is going to give out the grades, and whether it's going to count the science tests that many students took.

On Wednesday, Wise said the raw data from FCAT scores has been received and 15 potential F schools are anticipated.

The state has not assigned grades yet, but if it follows the current system, schools that could be in trouble are: Forest, Andrew Jackson, Raines and Ribault high schools; Butler, Northwestern, and Paxon middle schools; and Justina, Lake Forest, Long Branch, Northshore, Norwood, Pinedale, Pearson and Woodson elementary schools.

"I have targeted our lowest 15 performing schools, and those 15 schools -- I have already said to the principals, ''We need to study what we do to get turned around academically, where they may be more vulnerable and need more support,'" Wise said.

Channel 4's Jim Piggott spoke with students from Forrest High School, which for the first time could be a failing school.

"I knew we was like a D school at first. We had this new principal come over and she's been helping everybody out. I thought we was kind of getting up there a little bit," said student Kyria Williams.

That principal, Helene Kirkpatrick, said of course the school is disappointed, but changes are under way.

"Well, it's going to make us reach down and grab up our socks. We are going to have a two and a half minute pity party and get back to work to do the things we need to do to make things work right for kids," Kirkpatrick said.

Ribault High School is facing its fifth F grade in six years.

Wise has already talked to the state about plans for change at Ribault and other schools.

However, one of the things Wise said would not change is principals.

"I don't plan to change principals. Don't come in here and ask me to change principals -- I'm not going to do it. Why would you destabilize effective leadership when you are engaging in turn-around work?" Wise said.