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How has PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
601
Middle
DISTRICT 874 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OSCEOLA·NCES 120147002623
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
857 FLORIDA PKWY, KISSIMMEE, FL 34743 · (407) 344-7000 · Osceola County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL601 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 11% of Florida public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
18.8:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.4:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
349 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 180 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 216 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 205 | 34% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
36.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.3pp since 2023
Math
38.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +13.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 38.6% |
| 2023-24 | 29.7% | 24.9% |
% 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
38.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (38.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 601 | 58.1% | 38.8% |
| MIAMI SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI SPRINGS | 666 | 59.8% | 37.9% |
| COUNTRY CLUB MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH | 496 | 56.9% | 41.1% |
| DENN JOHN MIDDLE SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 809 | 59.7% | 34.7% |
| LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH | 514 | 52.5% | 50.3% |
| WEBB MIDDLE SCHOOL TAMPA | 782 | 62.0% | 38.5% |
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 PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Osceola County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #481 of 560 | #9 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #492 of 560 ▲ 61 | #8 of 10 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #486 of 560 ▲ 11 | #8 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 601 | #435 of 584 | #9 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #235 of 547 | #8 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.1% | #475 of 553 | #9 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.1% | #199 of 565 | #3 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.0% | #31 of 379 | #1 of 8 |
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
601
-257 (-30%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 807
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 601 | 32 | 18.8:1 | 58% (349) |
| 2023-24 | 660 | 41.5 | 15.9:1 | 56% (371) |
| 2022-23 | 741 | 41 | 18.1:1 | 53% (395) |
| 2020-21 | 858 | 52 | 16.5:1 | 59% (509) |
| 2017-18 | 939 | 61 | 15.4:1 | 52% (488) |
| 2015-16 | 865 | 57 | 15.2:1 | 60% (520) |
| 2010-11 | 881 | 55 | 16.0:1 | 78% (684) |
| 2000-01 | 1,102 | 53 | 20.8:1 | 68% (753) |
| 1990-91 | 807 | 43 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school in KISSIMMEE, Florida, and it is part of OSCEOLA. The school serves grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 601 students. That is 24% below the average of about 794 students for middle schools in Florida.
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL belongs to OSCEOLA, a district of 83 schools and 75,388 students.
Hispanic students are 78% of those enrolled at PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL. The next largest groups are 11% Black and 8% White. In Osceola County overall, about 56% of residents are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 37, compared with 70 nationally.
With 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 18.8:1. Middle schools in Florida average 19.6:1, 0.8 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 58% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Florida public middle schools, PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 11%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 52.1% for PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL. The school posts 38.8%, 13.2 points below the prediction.
Census data for Osceola County show median household income comes to about $72,637, about 30% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 88 public schools in the county, enrolling about 74,164, PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, BOGGY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is the closest to PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on average proficiency.
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 601, down from 858 in 2020-21. Students per teacher increased from 16.5 in 2020-21 to 18.8 in 2024-25.
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Osceola County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
427,415
Census ACS
Median income
$72,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
74,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OSCEOLA
- TOHOPEKALIGA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,929 students
- CELEBRATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,681 students
- HARMONY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,673 students
- ST. CLOUD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,596 students
- POINCIANA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,573 students
- OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,345 students
Other schools in KISSIMMEE
- TOHOPEKALIGA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,929 students
- POINCIANA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,573 students
- OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,345 students
- GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,882 students
- WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,496 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT TAPESTRYElementary · 1,419 students
Other Parkway Middle schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Parkway Middle. PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOLLAUDERHILL, FL · 883 students
- Parkway Middle SchoolRockford, OH · 279 students
- PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOLWHITESBORO, NY · 246 students
Nearby schools
- BOGGY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 549
- KISSIMMEE CHARTER ACADEMY0.6 mi · 752
- MILL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 610
- DENN JOHN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 809
- CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 455
- VENTURA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 750
Frequently asked questions
About PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 601 students in grades 06-08.
Is PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 8% White, 78% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by OSCEOLA in Osceola County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.