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What's the biggest difference between NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
526
Middle
DISTRICT 587 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAY·NCES 120009007791
NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL
1 BUCCANEER DR, PANAMA CITY, FL 32404 · (850) 248-0801 · Bay County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL526 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of Florida public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.9:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
157 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 175 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 176 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 175 | 33% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
70.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
88.8%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.1% | 88.8% |
| 2023-24 | 69.7% | 89.5% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
78.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL
NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (78.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 526 | 29.8% | 78.0% |
| BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL PANAMA CITY | 429 | 35.7% | 70.5% |
| BERKLEY ACCELERATED AUBURNDALE | 622 | 30.7% | 70.3% |
| HERBERT C. HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL INDIALANTIC | 473 | 30.9% | 65.9% |
| OKALOOSA STEMM CENTER VALPARAISO | 366 | 27.9% | 97.8% |
| R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL BRADENTON | 787 | 28.7% | 71.6% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #41 of 560 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.8% | #28 of 560 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #99 of 560 ▼ 37 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 526 | #464 of 584 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.0:1 | #421 of 547 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.8% | #349 of 553 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.8% | #475 of 565 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
526
+18 (+4%) vs 2020
+138% since 2010-11, when it was 221
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
was 20.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 526 | 25 | 21.0:1 | 30% (157) |
| 2023-24 | 525 | 27 | 19.4:1 | 33% (175) |
| 2022-23 | 524 | 23 | 22.8:1 | 29% (151) |
| 2020-21 | 508 | 25 | 20.3:1 | 22% (110) |
| 2017-18 | 526 | 26 | 20.2:1 | 36% (190) |
| 2015-16 | 509 | 23 | 22.1:1 | 24% (123) |
| 2010-11 | 221 | 9 | 24.6:1 | 19% (43) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL
In PANAMA CITY, Florida, NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small middle school. Federal data show 526 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. Across middle schools in Florida, the average enrollment is about 794.
BAY has a total of 47 schools and 27,494 students, NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
The largest group at NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is White students, at 66%. Other groups include 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 4% Asian. The county population is about 75% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
There are about 21.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, which has 25. Middle schools in Florida have an average ratio of 19.6:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 30%. On average, public schools in Bay County report 43%.
Among Florida public middle schools, NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 93%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 66.2%. NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 78.0%.
In the surrounding county, Bay County, the median household earns about $73,533 a year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Bay County has 50 public schools with about 27,672 students, including NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY is less than a tenth of a mile from NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 59.0% proficiency; NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 78.0%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Mid-size: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
From 508 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 526 by 2024-25.
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Bay County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
186,393
Census ACS
Median income
$73,533
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
27,672 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BAY
- A. CRAWFORD MOSLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,864 students
- DEANE BOZEMAN SCHOOLCombined · 1,690 students
- J.R. ARNOLD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,629 students
- RUTHERFORD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,394 students
- BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,289 students
- BREAKFAST POINT ACADEMYElementary · 1,089 students
Other schools in PANAMA CITY
- DEANE BOZEMAN SCHOOLCombined · 1,690 students
- RUTHERFORD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,394 students
- BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,289 students
- NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMYHigh · 865 students
- BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMYElementary · 766 students
- DEER POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 735 students
Nearby schools
- NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY0.0 mi · 865
- NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 696
- DEER POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 735
- TOMMY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 677
- MERRITT BROWN MIDDLE SCHOOL2.1 mi · 634
- BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 429
Frequently asked questions
About NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 526 students in grades 06-08.
Is NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 21.0:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 66% White, 12% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by BAY.
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