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If you could change one rule at PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
858
Middle
DISTRICT 809 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARLOTTE·NCES 120024000303
PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL
23000 MIDWAY BLVD, PORT CHARLOTTE, FL 33952 · (941) 255-7460 · Charlotte County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL858 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 62% of Florida public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
19.1:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.6:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
459 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 | 253 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 300 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 305 | 36% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
57.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
65.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.5% | 65.8% |
| 2023-24 | 51.5% | 60.6% |
% 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
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL
PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 858 | 53.5% | 57.0% |
| STORM GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL VERO BEACH | 904 | 51.9% | 58.5% |
| RAYMOND B. STEWART MIDDLE SCHOOL ZEPHYRHILLS | 954 | 57.2% | 41.0% |
| DELAND MIDDLE SCHOOL DELAND | 1,059 | 53.6% | 46.4% |
| MURDOCK MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT CHARLOTTE | 656 | 53.8% | 53.2% |
| POWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKSVILLE | 1,041 | 52.6% | 51.1% |
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 PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #224 of 560 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #193 of 560 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #231 of 560 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 858 | #249 of 584 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #257 of 547 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.1% | #110 of 553 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.5% | #257 of 565 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.6% | #108 of 137 |
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
858
+126 (+17%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 688
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
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 | 858 | 45 | 19.1:1 | 53% (459) |
| 2023-24 | 884 | 49 | 18.0:1 | 68% (597) |
| 2022-23 | 877 | 46 | 19.1:1 | 55% (484) |
| 2020-21 | 732 | 36 | 20.3:1 | 50% (365) |
| 2017-18 | 828 | 43 | 19.3:1 | 52% (430) |
| 2015-16 | 851 | 47 | 18.1:1 | 75% (634) |
| 2010-11 | 793 | 44 | 18.0:1 | 69% (549) |
| 2000-01 | 1,010 | 56 | 18.0:1 | 48% (481) |
| 1990-91 | 688 | 35 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL
PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL, located in PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida, is a medium-sized middle-grades school. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 858 students.
CHARLOTTE is made up of 24 schools with 16,997 students in all.
Enrollment at PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is mixed, with White students the largest group at 48%. The rest of enrollment is 27% Hispanic, 15% Black, and 8% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Charlotte County's population at about 83%. The chance that two students picked at random at PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 67%.
The school reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 19.1 students per teacher. Across middle schools in Florida, the average ratio is about 19.6:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 53%. The gap from the 43% average for public schools in Charlotte County is 10 points.
Measured against Florida public middle schools, PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Florida, PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 57.0% actual against a predicted 54.4%.
Census Bureau estimates for Charlotte County show that median household income is about $69,952, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 27% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 25 public schools in Charlotte County, which together enroll about 16,997 students.
The closest public school to PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in 4th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL as Suburb: Mid-size.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 17%, from 732 to 858. The ratio was 20.3:1 in 2020-21 and 19.1:1 in 2024-25.
The discussion area below is open to posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Charlotte County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
201,064
Census ACS
Median income
$69,952
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
16,997 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CHARLOTTE
- CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,872 students
- PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,730 students
- LEMON BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,343 students
- PUNTA GORDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,098 students
- BABCOCK NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLCombined · 1,053 students
- EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 814 students
Other schools in PORT CHARLOTTE
- PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,730 students
- LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 764 students
- NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 763 students
- MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 708 students
- MURDOCK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 656 students
- MYAKKA RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 624 students
Nearby schools
- NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 763
- KINGSWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 579
- CHARLOTTE HARBOR SCHOOL2.1 mi · 130
- PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 557
- LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 764
- MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.2 mi · 708
Frequently asked questions
About PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 858 students in grades 06-08.
Is PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 19.1:1 (45 FTE teachers).
How diverse is PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 48% White, 27% Hispanic, 15% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by CHARLOTTE in Charlotte County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.