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FORT CAROLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL · JACKSONVILLE, FL
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FAST / B.E.S.T., SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % at Level 3 or Above.
English Language Arts
42.1%
State avg 56.7%
District avg 49.6%
County avg 48.6%
+9.5pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
44.8%
State avg 58.9%
District avg 53.5%
County avg 51.0%
-1.2pp since 2023-24
Science
42.0%
State avg 58.7%
District avg 54.7%
County avg 52.8%
+8.5pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 45 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 42 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57, 59, and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points and science scores are up about 8 points.

Rank: FORT CAROLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL places #392 of 560 Florida middle schools, and #11 of 26 in Duval County for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.0pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 642.0%59.5%13739.0%60.0%135N/AN/AN/A
Grade 741.0%56.8%11150.0%50.5%111N/AN/AN/A
Grade 843.0%54.9%14134.0%56.6%7131.0%48.8%116
High schoolN/AN/AN/A59.0%59.6%69100.0%71.5%22

2-year history

All grades, all students. FORT CAROLINE   Florida avg

English Language Arts

53332023-2457422024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2542.1%49.6%48.6%56.7%
SY 2023-2432.6%45.8%45.4%52.9%

Mathematics

56462023-2459452024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2544.8%53.5%51.0%58.9%
SY 2023-2446.0%49.5%48.0%55.7%

Science

55342023-2459422024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2542.0%54.7%52.8%58.7%
SY 2023-2433.5%51.2%50.1%55.5%

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How to read these scores

What is FAST / B.E.S.T.?
Florida public-school students take the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) three times a year in ELA and Math (grades 3-10), plus a B.E.S.T. Science test at grades 5 and 8. High school students take B.E.S.T. End-of-Course (EOC) exams in Algebra I and Biology. The Spring (PM3) administration is the summative measure used here.
What does "% at Level 3 or Above" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at Level 3, 4, or 5 on Florida's 5-level B.E.S.T. performance scale. Level 3 is "On Grade Level"; Levels 4 and 5 are "Above Grade Level" and "Mastery". The cumulative top-three rate is the headline measure FLDOE reports for school grades. A higher number is better.
What does 42.1% mean for English Language Arts at FORT CAROLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
It means about 42.1 percent of students tested at FORT CAROLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL performed at grade level or above on the FAST / B.E.S.T. English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Florida that year was 56.7%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Florida, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Florida Department of Education, Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) and B.E.S.T. End-of-Course exams (Algebra I, Biology). School-level results from the FLDOE Spring PM3 administration. Headline metric is the cumulative "Level 3 or Above" rate on Florida's 5-level B.E.S.T. performance scale.
How often is it updated?
FAST / B.E.S.T. is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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