RUTH RAINS MIDDLE SCHOOL

RUTH RAINS MIDDLE SCHOOL, a low-enrollment middle school in CROSS CITY, Florida, run under DIXIE, teaches 434 students, covering grades 5 through 7. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 45% smaller than typical.

DIXIE comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,435 students; RUTH RAINS MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, RUTH RAINS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (82%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Dixie County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dixie County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RUTH RAINS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of +11.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dixie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $50,110 per year, 11% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. RUTH RAINS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 9 public schools in Dixie County (combined enrollment of about 2,435 students).

JAMES M. ANDERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RUTH RAINS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.5%.

RUTH RAINS MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at RUTH RAINS MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 6%, going from 460 students in 2018 to 434 in 2024. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2024.

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