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What's the most underrated thing about FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
897
Middle
DISTRICT 727 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ESCAMBIA·NCES 120051000796
FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL
8355 YANCEY AVE, PENSACOLA, FL 32514 · (850) 494-5650 · Escambia County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL897 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% 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
18.7:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
521 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 6 | 290 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 306 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 301 | 34% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
47.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.7pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 down about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.3% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.6% | 52.0% |
% 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
48.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL
FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (48.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 897 | 58.1% | 48.0% |
| OAKLEAF JUNIOR HIGH ORANGE PARK | 906 | 54.3% | 66.6% |
| FORT CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOL GAINESVILLE | 840 | 51.3% | 55.7% |
| JOHN HOPKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG | 757 | 51.9% | 50.8% |
| AZALEA MIDDLE SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG | 696 | 63.2% | 39.8% |
| JEWETT MIDDLE ACADEMY MAGNET WINTER HAVEN | 566 | 58.3% | 59.8% |
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 FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Escambia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #352 of 560 | #6 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #386 of 560 ▼ 84 | #6 of 10 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #362 of 560 ▲ 16 | #7 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 897 | #221 of 584 | #4 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #224 of 547 | #8 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.3% | #64 of 553 | #1 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.1% | #198 of 565 | #4 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.7% | #187 of 379 | #6 of 8 |
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
897
-123 (-12%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 1,123
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 897 | 48 | 18.7:1 | 58% (521) |
| 2023-24 | 959 | 46 | 20.9:1 | 63% (604) |
| 2022-23 | 1,014 | 49 | 20.7:1 | 64% (645) |
| 2020-21 | 1,020 | 64 | 15.9:1 | 57% (583) |
| 2017-18 | 1,052 | 62 | 17.0:1 | 51% (536) |
| 2015-16 | 1,031 | 62 | 16.6:1 | 67% (690) |
| 2010-11 | 955 | 55 | 17.4:1 | 66% (630) |
| 2000-01 | 1,068 | 49 | 21.8:1 | 48% (512) |
| 1990-91 | 1,123 | 59 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL
FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public middle school in PENSACOLA, Florida. Its enrollment is 897 students, spread over grades 6 through 8.
ESCAMBIA has 66 schools; together they serve 36,795 students.
Of every 100 students at FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 40 are Black, the largest group. Other students are 35% White, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 4% Asian. That is higher than the 21% Black share among all Escambia County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 69%.
There are 48 full-time-equivalent teachers at FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 18.7:1. The school's 18.7:1 compares with an average of 19.6:1 for middle schools in Florida. By family income, 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 37% of Florida public middle schools.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL's results are 4.0 points below predicted: 48.0% against 52.1%.
Escambia County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $67,500 a year, roughly 30% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Escambia County with 70 other public schools.
A public school about 1.1 miles away, FERRY PASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is the closest to FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 5th of 7 on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 12%, from 1,020 to 897. By 2024-25, the school had 18.7 students per teacher, compared with 15.9 in 2020-21.
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Escambia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
325,923
Census ACS
Median income
$67,500
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
71
37,056 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ESCAMBIA
- J. M. TATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,169 students
- WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,676 students
- ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,634 students
- PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,604 students
- WEST FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL/TECHNICALHigh · 1,322 students
- PENSACOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,221 students
Other schools in PENSACOLA
- WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,676 students
- ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,634 students
- PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,604 students
- WEST FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL/TECHNICALHigh · 1,322 students
- PENSACOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,221 students
- BEULAH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,070 students
Nearby schools
- FERRY PASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 579
- J. H. WORKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.9 mi · 602
- REINHARDT HOLM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 480
- SCENIC HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 773
- PACE PROGRAM2.1 mi · 57
- ESCAMBIA COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMY2.2 mi · 205
Frequently asked questions
About FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 897 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 18.7:1 students per teacher at FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 35% White, 12% Hispanic, 40% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
FERRY PASS MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by ESCAMBIA in Escambia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.