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JAMES MADISON 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 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL
As an intimate 6-8 campus in TITUSVILLE, Florida, JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL instructs 447 students from grades 7 through 8, overseen by BREVARD. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 44% smaller than typical.
Within BREVARD, which oversees 109 schools and 73,587 students, JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 15% Black, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Brevard County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.1%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of -5.9 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Brevard County put median household earnings sit near $78,476, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 113 public schools in Brevard County (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students).
Nearest neighbor: OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JAMES MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 459 students in 2018 compared to 447 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.
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