INVERNESS MIDDLE SCHOOL

INVERNESS MIDDLE SCHOOL, a mid-tier middle school in INVERNESS, Florida, run under CITRUS, hosts 911 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

CITRUS comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 15,594 students; INVERNESS MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, INVERNESS MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Citrus County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, INVERNESS MIDDLE SCHOOL has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at INVERNESS MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, INVERNESS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 47.8%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Citrus County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,546 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Citrus County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,594 students), of which INVERNESS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is CITRUS ESCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, INVERNESS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. INVERNESS MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 1,039 (now 911). White enrollment moved from 83% to 78% across the same window.

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