BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL

BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campuss in PENSACOLA, Florida, overseen by ESCAMBIA, with 719 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 66 schools operated by ESCAMBIA, a district that enrolls 36,795 students overall.

Looking at the student body, BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% White, 16% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Escambia County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.1%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of -13.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Escambia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,500 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Escambia County's 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students), BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BELLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL has fell 30%, going from 1,033 students in 2018 to 719 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 21% across the same window.

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