BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL

BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the cozy middle schools in NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida, overseen by PASCO, with 668 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

PASCO comprises 105 schools with combined enrollment of 86,873 students; BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 36% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 72% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 19.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Pasco County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.7%; BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 34.5%, -15.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pasco County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,492 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pasco County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students), of which BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SCHRADER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 781 students in 2018 compared to 668 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 65% to 46%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.