JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A controversy is brewing at an area high school after parents of the runners up in the school's beauty pageant speak about, claiming the winner shouldn't have been allowed to take stage.

The controversy doesn't have anything to do with what the participants did on stage, but rather what they did in the classroom.

The Miss Raines pageant took place last Saturday. The contest is open to qualifying students at Northwest Jacksonville's Raines High School.

"This was very important to my daughter," said parent Lisa Green.

Green's daughter, Alicia, is a junior at Raines who competed in last weekend's pageant. The teen came in as the second runner up; however, Green said her daughter was robbed of the title.

According to Green, the winner and the first runner-up in the pageant did not qualify to enter the competition in the first place.

"It shouldn't be, I don't feel that's fair," Green said.

School district officials told Channel 4 that girls who enter the pageant must have at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average and a score of 275 or higher on either the math or reading portion of the FCAT.

District spokeswoman Jill Johnson said although the pageant winner and first runner-up did not do well on the FCAT last year, those scores don't count.

"Their FCAT scores may not be where they need to be as long as the winner this year passes the FCAT for this year, prior to her reigning year, which is 2008-2009, she's fine," Johnson explained.

Green said she believes the district's has the wrong interpretation of the rules, and said she saw other teens turned away from pageant participation because of low FCAT scores.

"You had to place both of those scores there and they had to have passed both the reading and the math portions of the test," Green said.

The principal at Raines is expected to meet with concerned parents like Green about the pageant.

Green said she doesn't want what happened to her daughter to happen to anyone else's daughter.

"For her to meet all of the eligibility requirements, I felt she was robbed. I truly feel she was robbed," Green said.

The FCAT scores being questioned will not be available until this summer, according to district officials. They said if the girls from the pageant do not meet the required scores, they would be stripped of the titles.