EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a mid-sized middle school in SANTA ROSA BEACH, Florida, EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL instructs 872 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by WALTON.

Within WALTON, which oversees 22 schools and 12,069 students, EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Walton County's rate of about 47%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.3%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Walton County put median household earnings sit near $81,986, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Walton County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,069 students), EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BAY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 79.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 961 (now 872). White enrollment moved from 78% to 68% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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