GRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 205 E MAGNOLIA ST, in GROVELAND, Florida, GRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a moderately sized middle-grades school that caters to 985 students (grades 6 through 8), part of LAKE. Enrollment runs roughly 24% above the state mean of about 794.

LAKE runs 60 schools in total, collectively educating 47,997 students. GRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 34% White, 18% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, GRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, GRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 61.1%; this one comes in at 43.7%, -17.4 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lake County) records that median household earnings sit near $73,161, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Lake County's 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,997 students), GRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GROVELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around GRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 54.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 993 students in 2018 compared to 985 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 45% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.