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Enrollment
830
Middle
DISTRICT 992 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO·NCES 120153006504
PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL
1410 SWEETBRIAR DR, HOLIDAY, FL 34691 · (727) 246-3200 · Pasco County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL830 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% 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
17.8:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.7:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
531 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 276 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 257 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 297 | 36% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
40.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.9pp since 2023
Math
33.9%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.9% | 33.9% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 35.5% |
% 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
36.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL
PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (36.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 830 | 64.0% | 36.8% |
| FOX CHAPEL MIDDLE SCHOOL SPRING HILL | 815 | 65.2% | 38.6% |
| GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 796 | 60.9% | 31.5% |
| MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL BRADENTON | 897 | 65.6% | 47.9% |
| SEBRING MIDDLE SCHOOL SEBRING | 840 | 59.3% | 53.8% |
| BOK ACADEMY LAKE WALES | 640 | 64.2% | 55.8% |
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 PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pasco County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #498 of 560 | #13 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.9% | #527 of 560 ▼ 39 | #14 of 16 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #448 of 560 ▼ 3 | #9 of 16 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 830 | #273 of 584 | #10 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #145 of 547 | #5 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.4% | #127 of 553 | #4 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.0% | #120 of 565 | #3 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.9% | #137 of 379 | #1 of 10 |
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
830
-140 (-14%) vs 2020
-19% since 2010-11, when it was 1,029
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 830 | 46.6 | 17.8:1 | 64% (531) |
| 2023-24 | 864 | 49.8 | 17.4:1 | 71% (617) |
| 2022-23 | 994 | 53 | 18.8:1 | 82% (818) |
| 2020-21 | 970 | 58 | 16.7:1 | 73% (711) |
| 2017-18 | 1,024 | 62 | 16.5:1 | 85% (866) |
| 2015-16 | 999 | 70 | 14.3:1 | 80% (800) |
| 2010-11 | 1,029 | 66 | 15.6:1 | 77% (792) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL
PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized middle school in HOLIDAY, Florida. The school counts 830 students across grades 6 through 8.
The district, PASCO, has 86,873 students enrolled across 105 schools.
The most common group at PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is White students, at 48%. Other groups make up 29% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 10% Black. Pasco County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 17.8:1 comes from the school's 46.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida. The lunch program counts 64% of students at PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 37% average for public schools in Pasco County, the school's rate is higher.
The allk12 Grade for PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is D. Compared with Florida public middle schools, the school scored higher than 10% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 36.8% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 49.1%.
Census estimates describe Pasco County this way: the median household income is $70,492, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 29%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Besides PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL, Pasco County has 110 other public schools.
ANCLOTE HIGH SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL. On state test proficiency, PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
NCES assigns PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL dropped 14% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 970 to 830 students. Federal data show the ratio rising from 16.7:1 to 17.8:1.
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Pasco County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
611,444
Census ACS
Median income
$70,492
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
86,873 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PASCO
- LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,233 students
- WIREGRASS RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,218 students
- SUNLAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,206 students
- JAMES W. MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,201 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,006 students
- WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,928 students
Other schools in HOLIDAY
- ANCLOTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,150 students
- GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 625 students
- SUNRAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 420 students
- GULFSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 393 students
Nearby schools
- ANCLOTE HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,150
- GULFSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 393
- GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 625
- TARPON SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 649
- TARPON SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 417
- TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 1,111
Frequently asked questions
About PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 830 students in grades 06-08.
Is PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.8:1 students per teacher at PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 48% White, 29% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PASCO.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.