RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a minimally staffed junior high in ROCKLEDGE, Florida, RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL teaches 262 students from grades 7 through 8, operated by BREVARD. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 67% below typical.

Across the 109 schools in BREVARD (73,587 students total), RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 23% White, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Brevard County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 51.4%, a residual of +1.4 points.

In the broader community, Brevard County reports that median household income runs about $78,476, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Brevard County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students), RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

EMMA JEWEL CHARTER ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 41.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 32% since 2018, when it stood at 386 (now 262). The White share of enrollment fell from 39% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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