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INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL
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 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL
INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a moderately sized middle-grades school in WINTER SPRINGS, Florida, one of the schools within SEMINOLE. The school enrolls 1,116 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 41% bigger than that benchmark.
SEMINOLE runs 74 schools in total, collectively educating 63,934 students. INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. Compared to Seminole County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 41% of students at INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.6%, the actual is 61.1%, a residual of +0.5 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Seminole County put median household income runs about $85,761, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Seminole County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,934 students), of which INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is KEETH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 69.7%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 11%, going from 1,260 students in 2018 to 1,116 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 63% to 57% over that span.
On allk12, the feed for INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Seminole County at a glance
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