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Enrollment
768
Middle
DISTRICT 797 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SANTA ROSA·NCES 120165003664
AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL
5445 KING ARTHURS WAY, MILTON, FL 32583 · (850) 983-5540 · Santa Rosa County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL768 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
426 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 238 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 263 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 267 | 35% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
56.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.6pp since 2023
Math
69.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +11.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.9% | 69.8% |
| 2023-24 | 47.3% | 58.2% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
58.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL
AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (58.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 768 | 55.5% | 58.9% |
| GAMBLE ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL ST AUGUSTINE | 896 | 55.9% | 62.8% |
| WILKINSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIDDLEBURG | 711 | 58.4% | 65.2% |
| CLIFFORD MEIGS MIDDLE SCHOOL SHALIMAR | 612 | 57.8% | 60.7% |
| MERRITT BROWN MIDDLE SCHOOL PANAMA CITY | 634 | 51.1% | 44.6% |
| R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL ST AUGUSTINE | 742 | 55.8% | 64.7% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Santa Rosa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #204 of 560 | #5 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.8% | #157 of 560 ▲ 75 | #5 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.9% | #243 of 560 ▲ 56 | #5 of 7 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 768 | #320 of 584 | #5 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #231 of 547 | #2 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.2% | #406 of 553 | #3 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.5% | #232 of 565 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.4% | #374 of 379 | #7 of 7 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
768
+42 (+6%) vs 2020
+6% since 2000-01, when it was 724
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 17.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 768 | 41 | 18.7:1 | 55% (426) |
| 2023-24 | 768 | 37 | 20.8:1 | 54% (412) |
| 2022-23 | 767 | 37 | 20.7:1 | 54% (414) |
| 2020-21 | 726 | 41 | 17.7:1 | 44% (319) |
| 2017-18 | 771 | 42 | 18.4:1 | 51% (397) |
| 2015-16 | 701 | 44 | 15.9:1 | 56% (395) |
| 2010-11 | 768 | 40 | 19.2:1 | 49% (378) |
| 2000-01 | 724 | 39 | 18.6:1 | 30% (217) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL
The public middle-grades school AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in MILTON, Florida. There are 768 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8.
SANTA ROSA oversees AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL and 37 other schools, with 29,643 students in total.
More than half of the students at AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL are White (71%). Next come 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 7% Black. That compares with about 80% White among all Santa Rosa County residents. The diversity index for AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL is 47%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
A staff of 41 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 18.7:1. The gap from the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida is 0.9 students per teacher. By family income, 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Santa Rosa County is 44%.
Test results at AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL are 5.5 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (58.9% actual, 53.4% predicted).
The school's county is Santa Rosa County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $91,922 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Santa Rosa County with 41 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest to BENNETT C RUSSELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 7 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL places 2nd out of 6 schools in its immediate area.
Under the NCES locale system, AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
The school's enrollment rose 6% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 17.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 18.7:1.
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Santa Rosa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
198,472
Census ACS
Median income
$91,922
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
29,382 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SANTA ROSA
- NAVARRE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,410 students
- PACE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,316 students
- MILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,985 students
- GULF BREEZE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,946 students
- EAST BAY K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,100 students
- WALLACE LAKE K-8Elementary · 1,061 students
Other schools in MILTON
- MILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,985 students
- BENNETT C RUSSELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 899 students
- BERRYHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 802 students
- W. H. RHODES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 789 students
- EAST MILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 771 students
- HOBBS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 743 students
Other Avalon Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Avalon Middle. AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- AVALON MIDDLEORLANDO, FL · 791 students
- Avalon Middle SchoolSAINT PAUL, MN · 75 students
Nearby schools
- BENNETT C RUSSELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 899
- PEA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 846
- S. S. DIXON PRIMARY SCHOOL4.0 mi · 611
- HOBBS MIDDLE SCHOOL4.4 mi · 743
- T. R. JACKSON PREK CENTER4.4 mi · 184
- BAGDAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 501
Frequently asked questions
About AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 768 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.7:1.
How diverse is AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 71% White, 10% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SANTA ROSA.
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