MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL

MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intermediate school of tight-knit scale in STUART, Florida, overseen by MARTIN, enrolling 564 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

MARTIN runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 18,316 students. MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 39% Hispanic, 11% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Martin County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 46.2%, a residual of -2.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Martin County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,943 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Martin County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,316 students), of which MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

PK EARLY INTERVENTION is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.8%.

MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL has contracted 26%, going from 760 students in 2018 to 564 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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