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If you had an hour of school board time for FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
918
Middle
DISTRICT 952 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARION·NCES 120126001262
FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL
545 NE 17TH AVE, OCALA, FL 34470 · (352) 671-4725 · Marion County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL918 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.8:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
581 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 | 302 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 295 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 321 | 35% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
39.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.9pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.2% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.3% | 40.9% |
% 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
39.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL
FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (39.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 918 | 63.3% | 39.7% |
| NORTH MARION MIDDLE SCHOOL CITRA | 738 | 62.2% | 42.7% |
| SOUTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT ST LUCIE | 872 | 63.9% | 53.7% |
| MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL BRADENTON | 897 | 65.6% | 47.9% |
| LAKE WEIR MIDDLE SCHOOL SUMMERFIELD | 1,141 | 66.8% | 39.6% |
| ORANGE PARK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 832 | 66.8% | 50.4% |
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 FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Marion County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #468 of 560 | #9 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #467 of 560 ▼ 34 | #8 of 10 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.2% | #457 of 560 ▼ 15 | #10 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 918 | #203 of 584 | #5 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #301 of 547 | #6 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #71 of 553 | #5 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.3% | #127 of 565 | #2 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.2% | #157 of 379 | N/A |
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
918
-167 (-15%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 788
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 18.4:1
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 | 918 | 47 | 19.5:1 | 63% (581) |
| 2023-24 | 993 | 47 | 21.1:1 | 69% (687) |
| 2022-23 | 1,092 | 55 | 19.9:1 | 71% (771) |
| 2020-21 | 1,085 | 59 | 18.4:1 | 70% (755) |
| 2017-18 | 1,109 | 65 | 17.1:1 | 74% (818) |
| 2015-16 | 1,055 | 62 | 17.0:1 | 75% (787) |
| 2010-11 | 1,212 | 66 | 18.4:1 | 60% (725) |
| 2000-01 | 811 | 49 | 16.6:1 | 45% (363) |
| 1990-91 | 788 | 49 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL
FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle school in OCALA, Florida, one of the schools in MARION. It serves 918 students in grades 6 through 8.
MARION enrolls 46,349 students, and its 62 schools include FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL.
At FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL, the largest share of students is White, at 41%. It is also 28% Hispanic, 25% Black, and 5% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Marion County is roughly 69% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 19.5:1. That is close to the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida. FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 63%.
FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 39.7%, compared with a predicted 49.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in Marion County, where the median household income is $61,010, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Besides FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL, Marion County has 67 other public schools.
MARION COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. The five-mile area around FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 57.6% on proficiency, and FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is below that at 39.7%.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school enrolled 918 students in 2024-25, 167 fewer than the 1,085 it had in 2020-21. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (19.5:1) than in 2020-21 (18.4:1).
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Marion County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
400,078
Census ACS
Median income
$61,010
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
46,349 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MARION
- WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,022 students
- FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,387 students
- BELLEVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,904 students
- VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,684 students
- BELLEVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,600 students
- DUNNELLON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,562 students
Other schools in OCALA
- WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,022 students
- FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,387 students
- VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,684 students
- LAKE WEIR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,447 students
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,402 students
- HORIZON ACADEMY AT MARION OAKSMiddle · 1,260 students
Nearby schools
- MARION COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMY0.4 mi · 304
- WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 502
- STUDENT SERVICES/ESE0.6 mi · 7
- NEW LEAF CENTER1.1 mi · 123
- ELC PK ESE SERVICES1.2 mi · 12
- OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 866
Frequently asked questions
About FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL?
FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 918 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.5:1.
What is the student diversity at FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 41% White, 28% Hispanic, 25% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of MARION.
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