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HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH
HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH is an intimate four-year high school in HILLIARD, Florida, operated by NASSAU. The school enrolls 773 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 1,035.
HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH is one of 18 schools operated by NASSAU, a district that teaches 12,575 students overall.
On the student-mix side, HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.4%; this one delivers 73.2%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Nassau County put the typical household earns roughly $89,804 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Nassau County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,575 students), HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH is one campus in the mix.
HILLIARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 61.8%.
HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH operates from a low-density location.
Trend over the last 7 years. HILLIARD MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH's enrollment has ticked up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 736 (now 773).
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