EAST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

EAST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier middle schools in CLERMONT, Florida, operated by LAKE, with 1,089 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so EAST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 37% above that benchmark.

Within LAKE, which oversees 60 schools and 47,997 students, EAST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, EAST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Hispanic, 13% Black, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EAST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.7%, the actual is 66.7%, a residual of -4.1 points.

Across the wider county, Lake County reports that median household income runs about $73,161, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Lake County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,997 students), of which EAST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

EAST RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EAST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 67.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. EAST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,129 (now 1,089). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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