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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,059
Middle
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BREVARD·NCES 120015000110
CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
2600 WINGATE BLVD, WEST MELBOURNE, FL 32904 · (321) 722-4150 · Brevard County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,059 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Florida public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
562 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 7 | 543 | 51% |
| Grade 8 | 516 | 49% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
56.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.9pp since 2023
Math
58.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +13.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.5% | 58.7% |
| 2023-24 | 49.5% | 45.2% |
% 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
51.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (51.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,059 | 53.1% | 51.0% |
| LAKELAND HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL LAKELAND | 1,118 | 52.4% | 54.0% |
| STORM GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL VERO BEACH | 904 | 51.9% | 58.5% |
| BUFFALO CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL PALMETTO | 1,171 | 49.4% | 56.2% |
| SILVER SANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT ORANGE | 1,199 | 54.5% | 54.7% |
| WOODLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH PORT | 1,040 | 51.2% | 58.2% |
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 CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Brevard County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #316 of 560 | #8 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.7% | #264 of 560 ▲ 112 | #6 of 12 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.5% | #248 of 560 ▲ 13 | #6 of 12 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,059 | #112 of 584 | #1 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #83 of 547 | #4 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.1% | #175 of 553 | #7 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.1% | #261 of 565 | #5 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.5% | #308 of 379 | #9 of 10 |
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
1,059
-76 (-7%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 1,186
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 1,059 | 62.8 | 16.9:1 | 53% (562) |
| 2023-24 | 1,060 | 58 | 18.3:1 | 54% (570) |
| 2022-23 | 1,127 | 65.8 | 17.1:1 | 53% (602) |
| 2020-21 | 1,135 | 67 | 16.9:1 | 56% (634) |
| 2017-18 | 1,121 | 62 | 18.1:1 | 49% (550) |
| 2015-16 | 1,141 | 65 | 17.6:1 | 53% (607) |
| 2010-11 | 1,096 | 73 | 15.0:1 | 47% (519) |
| 2000-01 | 1,182 | 55 | 21.5:1 | 32% (382) |
| 1990-91 | 1,186 | 60 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle-grades school. Its address is in WEST MELBOURNE, Florida. Its grade span covers grades 7 through 8, with 1,059 students on the rolls. Middle schools in Florida average about 794 students, which makes this school 33% bigger than average.
In BREVARD, 109 schools enroll a combined 73,587 students.
The largest group at CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is White students, at 54%. The remaining students are 20% Hispanic, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among people living in Brevard County, the White share is about 73%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 64%.
There are 62.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 16.9:1. The school's 16.9:1 compares with an average of 19.6:1 for middle schools in Florida. By family income, 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Brevard County averages 42%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 44% of Florida public middle schools.
In Florida, CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 51.0% actual against a predicted 54.6%.
Looking at the county, Brevard County, the median household earns about $78,476 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, Brevard County has 113 public schools.
MEADOWLANE INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is 7th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Under the NCES locale system, CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 1,059, compared with 1,135 in 2020-21.
This page is set up for the CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Brevard County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
632,780
Census ACS
Median income
$78,476
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
73,587 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BREVARD
- VIERA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,334 students
- MELBOURNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,210 students
- BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,122 students
- HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,960 students
- ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,917 students
- ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,579 students
Other schools in WEST MELBOURNE
- PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNECombined · 832 students
- MEADOWLANE INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 779 students
- IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNEElementary · 665 students
- W. MELBOURNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR SCIENCEElementary · 605 students
- MEADOWLANE PRIMARY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 603 students
- EDUCATIONAL HORIZONS CHARTERElementary · 137 students
Other Central Middle schools
49 other US public schools in 25 states are named Central Middle. CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 5th largest of the 50.
- CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOLEDEN PRAIRIE, MN · 1,860 students
- Central Middle SchoolReading, PA · 1,785 students
- Central MiddleEdgewater, MD · 1,204 students
- Central Middle SchoolWESLACO, TX · 1,060 students
- Central Middle SchoolEdmond, OK · 1,036 students
Nearby schools
- MEADOWLANE INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 779
- MEADOWLANE PRIMARY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 603
- W. MELBOURNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE0.9 mi · 605
- IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE1.6 mi · 665
- EDUCATIONAL HORIZONS CHARTER1.7 mi · 137
- UNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 529
Frequently asked questions
About CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,059 students in grades 07-08.
What age range does CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 07 through grade 08.
How many teachers does CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 63 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1.
What is the student diversity at CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 54% White, 20% Hispanic, 15% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of BREVARD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.