MARTIN LUTHER KING MIDDLE SCHOOL

MARTIN LUTHER KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the cozy junior highs in MILTON, Florida, run under SANTA ROSA, with 621 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% below the state mean of about 794.

Across the 38 schools in SANTA ROSA (29,643 students total), MARTIN LUTHER KING MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, MARTIN LUTHER KING MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 12% multiracial, 9% Black, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting MARTIN LUTHER KING MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Santa Rosa County's rate of about 44%.

After controlling for student poverty, MARTIN LUTHER KING MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Santa Rosa County shows median household earnings sit near $91,922, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Santa Rosa County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,382 students), of which MARTIN LUTHER KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LEARNING ACADEMY OF SANTA ROSA, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARTIN LUTHER KING MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.6%.

MARTIN LUTHER KING MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARTIN LUTHER KING MIDDLE SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 627 students in 2018 to 621 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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