BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a tight-knit middle-grades school in PANAMA CITY, Florida, one of the schools within BAY. Current enrollment sits at 429 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 46% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

Across the 47 schools in BAY (27,494 students total), BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that White students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Bay County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 36% of students at BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.3%, the actual is 70.5%, a residual of +7.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bay County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $73,533 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Bay County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students), of which BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.

The school occupies a residential site. BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 7%, going from 462 students in 2018 to 429 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 73% to 67% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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