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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
1,149
Middle
DISTRICT 741 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159001792
LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
6901 SOCRUM LOOP RD N, LAKELAND, FL 33809 · (863) 853-6151 · Polk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,149 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% of Florida public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
21.7:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.9:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
794 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 385 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 346 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 418 | 36% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
37.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.1pp since 2023
Math
36.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.7% | 36.6% |
| 2023-24 | 31.6% | 32.8% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (36.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,149 | 69.1% | 36.0% |
| LAKE WEIR MIDDLE SCHOOL SUMMERFIELD | 1,141 | 66.8% | 39.6% |
| MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL BRADENTON | 897 | 65.6% | 47.9% |
| BARTOW MIDDLE SCHOOL BARTOW | 881 | 71.3% | 39.1% |
| DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF LAKE ALFRED LAKE ALFRED | 1,039 | 66.8% | 52.9% |
| FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL OCALA | 918 | 63.3% | 39.7% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #504 of 560 | #15 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #510 of 560 ▼ 7 | #18 of 24 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #472 of 560 ▲ 7 | #16 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,149 | #75 of 584 | #2 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.7:1 | #455 of 547 | #16 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.1% | #112 of 553 | #6 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.1% | #65 of 565 | #16 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.5% | #261 of 379 | #7 of 13 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,149
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 1,390
Student : Teacher
21.7:1
was 18.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,149 | 53 | 21.7:1 | 69% (794) |
| 2023-24 | 1,118 | 62 | 18.0:1 | 65% (732) |
| 2022-23 | 1,218 | 63 | 19.3:1 | 56% (683) |
| 2020-21 | 1,156 | 64 | 18.1:1 | 51% (590) |
| 2017-18 | 1,256 | 69 | 18.2:1 | 48% (602) |
| 2015-16 | 1,125 | 67 | 16.8:1 | 54% (610) |
| 2010-11 | 1,215 | 68 | 17.9:1 | 64% (780) |
| 2000-01 | 1,104 | 63 | 17.5:1 | 44% (490) |
| 1990-91 | 1,390 | 71 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
At 6901 SOCRUM LOOP RD N in LAKELAND, Florida, LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized middle-grades school. Federal data show 1,149 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 794 students for middle schools in Florida.
District-wide, POLK has 163 schools and 116,552 students.
At LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL, White students make up the biggest share, 42%. Smaller groups are 34% Hispanic, 19% Black, 2% multiracial, and 2% Asian. County-wide, 56% of Polk County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 67%.
Based on 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL has a ratio of 21.7:1. Across middle schools in Florida, the average ratio is 19.6:1. Income data for the school show 69% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 12% of Florida public middle schools.
Test results at LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL are 10.5 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (36.0% actual, 46.5% predicted).
In the wider Polk County area, the median household earns about $65,978 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Polk County with 171 other public schools.
LAKE GIBSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits about 0.3 miles from LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 40.3% proficiency; LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 36.0%.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolled 1,156; in 2024-25, 1,149. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 21.7:1, from 18.1:1.
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Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
790,694
Census ACS
Median income
$65,978
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
172
117,004 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POLK
- HAINES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,105 students
- DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,731 students
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,648 students
- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,276 students
Other schools in LAKELAND
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,985 students
- LAKE GIBSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,973 students
- KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,861 students
- MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGYHigh · 1,750 students
- SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMYElementary · 1,200 students
Nearby schools
- LAKE GIBSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,973
- EDGAR L. PADGETT ELEMENTARY0.5 mi · 531
- WENDELL WATSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 764
- DR. NE ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 697
- R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 662
- NORTH LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF CHOICE3.2 mi · 658
Frequently asked questions
About LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,149 students in grades 06-08.
Is LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 21.7:1 students per teacher at LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 42% White, 34% Hispanic, 19% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by POLK.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.