NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in PANAMA CITY, Florida, NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a modestly sized 6-8 campus, operated by BAY. It works with 526 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 34% leaner than typical.

NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 47 schools operated by BAY, a district that instructs 27,494 students overall.

Looking at the student body, NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Bay County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 30% of students at NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Bay County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.2%, the actual is 78.0%, a residual of +11.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Bay County shows 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 CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area. NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 526 (now 526). The White share of enrollment declined from 74% to 66% over that span.

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