LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL

LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the medium-sized middle-grades schools in LECANTO, Florida, run under CITRUS, with 786 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

CITRUS runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 15,594 students. LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder reads as 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Citrus County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL shows 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Citrus County indicate median household income runs about $56,546, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 28 public schools in Citrus County (combined enrollment of about 15,594 students).

Nearest neighbor: LECANTO PRIMARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 770 students in 2018 to 786 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 79% to 74%. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.