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Enrollment
742
Middle
DISTRICT 1,024 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. JOHNS·NCES 120174001915
R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
150 N HOLMES BLVD, ST AUGUSTINE, FL 32084 · (904) 547-8470 · St. Johns County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL742 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of Florida public middle schools
- B+Test 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
19.0:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.8:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
414 students
DISTRICT 28% · 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 | 239 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 275 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 228 | 31% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
62.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.3pp since 2023
Math
67.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 67.8% |
| 2023-24 | 55.7% | 64.0% |
% 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
64.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (64.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 742 | 55.8% | 64.7% |
| CLIFFORD MEIGS MIDDLE SCHOOL SHALIMAR | 612 | 57.8% | 60.7% |
| LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 865 | 58.0% | 70.4% |
| AVALON MIDDLE SCHOOL MILTON | 768 | 55.5% | 58.9% |
| LAKE CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL LAKE CITY | 809 | 52.3% | 53.3% |
| SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL CRESTVIEW | 923 | 57.7% | 66.6% |
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 R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Johns County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.7% | #152 of 560 | #6 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.8% | #174 of 560 ▲ 3 | #5 of 7 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #171 of 560 ▲ 18 | #6 of 7 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 742 | #340 of 584 | #6 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #253 of 547 | #3 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.9% | #308 of 553 | #2 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.8% | #225 of 565 | #2 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #227 of 379 | #2 of 6 |
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
742
+97 (+15%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 1,054
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 742 | 39 | 19.0:1 | 56% (414) |
| 2023-24 | 745 | 48 | 15.5:1 | 54% (402) |
| 2022-23 | 695 | 43 | 16.2:1 | 50% (345) |
| 2020-21 | 645 | 42 | 15.4:1 | 54% (347) |
| 2017-18 | 837 | 45 | 18.6:1 | 49% (410) |
| 2015-16 | 708 | 43 | 16.5:1 | 50% (352) |
| 2010-11 | 678 | 37 | 18.3:1 | 53% (362) |
| 2000-01 | 592 | 39 | 15.2:1 | 45% (266) |
| 1990-91 | 1,054 | 59 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
ST AUGUSTINE, Florida, is home to R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL, a mid-sized middle school. It teaches 742 students in grades 6 through 8.
R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one school in a 53-school district, ST. JOHNS, which enrolls 52,383 students.
More than half of the students at R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL are White (62%). The next largest groups are 20% Black, 11% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. In St. Johns County overall, about 79% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 56%.
R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 19.0 students per teacher. That is in line with the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida. About 56% of students at R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 21% average for public schools in St. Johns County is 35 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 82% of Florida public middle schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 11.5 points above its prediction. Actual: 64.7%. Predicted: 53.2%.
In St. Johns County, home to about 306,934 people, median household income comes to about $109,839, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 51%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 68 public schools in the county, enrolling about 52,895, R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is the closest to R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 63.4% proficiency; R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 64.7%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Small: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
The school's enrollment rose 15% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio rising from 15.4:1 to 19.0:1.
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St. Johns County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
306,934
Census ACS
Median income
$109,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
52,895 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ST. JOHNS
- TOCOI CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,616 students
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,479 students
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,214 students
- ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,177 students
- BARTRAM TRAIL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- MILL CREEK ACADEMYElementary · 1,983 students
Other schools in ST AUGUSTINE
- MILL CREEK ACADEMYElementary · 1,983 students
- PINE ISLAND ACADEMYElementary · 1,972 students
- ST. AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,717 students
- PACETTI BAY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,481 students
- PEDRO MENENDEZ HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,403 students
- LAKESIDE ACADEMYElementary · 1,356 students
Nearby schools
- JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 586
- CROOKSHANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 705
- GAINES ALTERNATIVE AT HAMBLEN1.6 mi · 65
- THE EVELYN HAMBLEN CENTER1.6 mi · 48
- OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 639
- SEBASTIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 690
Frequently asked questions
About R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 742 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 19.0:1 students per teacher at R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 62% White, 11% Hispanic, 20% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ST. JOHNS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.