KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL

KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a moderately sized middle-grades school in KISSIMMEE, Florida, overseen by OSCEOLA. The school educates 892 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 83 schools in OSCEOLA (75,388 students total), KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%; the rest looks like 11% Black, 8% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 56% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -14.1 points.

Around the school, Osceola County reports that median household income runs about $72,637, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Osceola County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students), KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

KISSIMMEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 1,272 (now 892).

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