FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL

FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the moderately sized intermediate schools in PENSACOLA, Florida, one of the schools within ESCAMBIA, with 897 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

ESCAMBIA runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 36,795 students. FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of -4.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Escambia County) logs that median household income runs about $67,500, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Escambia County's 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students), FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FERRY PASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 47.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 1,052 students in 2018 compared to 897 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 46% to 35% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.