DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL

DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the reasonably sized junior highs in DEERFIELD BEACH, Florida, part of BROWARD, with 1,132 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 43% above that benchmark.

BROWARD comprises 325 schools with combined enrollment of 243,591 students; DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 36% Hispanic, 8% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.5%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Broward County put the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).

SOMERSET ACADEMY KEY CHARTER HIGH 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 DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 41.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 1,113 students in 2018 to 1,132 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 25% to 36%. Class-load math has grew: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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