NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY

NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY operates as a modestly sized secondary school in PANAMA CITY, Florida, operated by BAY. Current enrollment sits at 865 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

BAY comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 27,494 students; NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY is among them.

On the student-mix side, NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY reports that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 15% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 28% of students at NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Bay County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 67.0%; NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY posts 83.7%, +16.7 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bay County) records that the typical household earns roughly $73,533 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Bay County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students), NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 58.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 759 (now 865). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 5% to 15%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

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