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Enrollment
796
Middle
DISTRICT 992 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO·NCES 120153001574
GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL
6419 LOUISIANA AVE, NEW PORT RICHEY, FL 34653 · (727) 774-8000 · Pasco County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL796 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of Florida public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
15.6:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.7:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
485 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 262 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 241 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 293 | 37% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
35.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.3pp since 2023
Math
32.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.6% | 32.1% |
| 2023-24 | 30.4% | 29.9% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
31.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL
GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (31.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 796 | 60.9% | 31.5% |
| PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL HOLIDAY | 830 | 64.0% | 36.8% |
| SEBRING MIDDLE SCHOOL SEBRING | 840 | 59.3% | 53.8% |
| MCINTOSH MIDDLE SCHOOL SARASOTA | 693 | 61.2% | 53.5% |
| SUWANNEE MIDDLE SCHOOL LIVE OAK | 971 | 58.7% | 51.2% |
| BROOKSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL SARASOTA | 724 | 59.7% | 57.6% |
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 GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pasco County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.5% | #541 of 560 | #16 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.1% | #541 of 560 ▼ 14 | #16 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #492 of 560 no change | #14 of 16 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 796 | #296 of 584 | #12 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #31 of 547 | #1 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #157 of 553 | #7 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.9% | #157 of 565 | #5 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #229 of 379 | #5 of 10 |
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
796
-209 (-21%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 1,115
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 796 | 51 | 15.6:1 | 61% (485) |
| 2023-24 | 858 | 48.8 | 17.6:1 | 72% (615) |
| 2022-23 | 901 | 57 | 15.8:1 | 83% (750) |
| 2020-21 | 1,005 | 66 | 15.2:1 | 76% (768) |
| 2017-18 | 897 | 63 | 14.2:1 | 85% (765) |
| 2015-16 | 785 | 52 | 15.1:1 | 83% (652) |
| 2010-11 | 888 | 53 | 16.8:1 | 73% (645) |
| 2000-01 | 1,002 | 57 | 17.6:1 | 62% (626) |
| 1990-91 | 1,115 | 56 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL
GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle school serving families in NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida. The school enrolls 796 students, from grades 6 through 8.
PASCO oversees GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL and 104 other schools, with 86,873 students in total.
GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 49%. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. In Pasco County overall, about 72% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 51 full-time equivalents, or about 15.6 students per teacher. On average, middle schools in Florida have 19.6:1, compared with 15.6:1 here. About 61% of students, or 485, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Pasco County report 37%.
allk12 grades GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL an F. The grade compares the school only with Florida public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations places GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL in the bottom 10% of Florida schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 19.2 points below it (31.5% actual, 50.6% predicted).
Pasco County has about 611,444 residents, and the median household income is $70,492, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 29%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Besides GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL, Pasco County has 110 other public schools.
GULF HIGH SCHOOL is the public school closest to GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 42.3%; GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL's is 31.5%, ranking 5th of 7.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment at GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL dropped 21% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 1,005 to 796 students.
Parents and students can post about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Pasco County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
611,444
Census ACS
Median income
$70,492
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
86,873 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PASCO
- LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,233 students
- WIREGRASS RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,218 students
- SUNLAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,206 students
- JAMES W. MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,201 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,006 students
- WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,928 students
Other schools in NEW PORT RICHEY
- RIVER RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,798 students
- GULF HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,518 students
- DAYSPRING ACADEMYCombined · 1,259 students
- RIVER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,026 students
- ODESSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 984 students
- WENDELL KRINN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 765 students
Other Gulf Middle schools
One other US public school is named Gulf Middle. GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- GULF MIDDLE SCHOOLCAPE CORAL, FL · 901 students
Nearby schools
- GULF HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,518
- RICHEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 750
- COTEE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 526
- JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 513
- MITTYE P. LOCKE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY PREV PK-51.8 mi · 84
- MARCHMAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE2.2 mi · 2
Frequently asked questions
About GULF MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 796 students in grades 06-08.
Is GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
What is the student diversity at GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 49% White, 30% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of PASCO.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.