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Florida schools ranked by test score

Latest FAST / B.E.S.T. year (2024-25). 566 schools with reported English Language Arts scores. State average: 57.1%.
RankSchoolLevelEnglish Language Artsvs state
551CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
LAKELAND · POLK
Middle28.2%-28.9pp
552HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL
JACKSONVILLE · DUVAL
Middle28.1%-29.0pp
553JOSE DE DIEGO MIDDLE SCHOOL
MIAMI · MIAMI-DADE
Middle28.0%-29.1pp
554WESTSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL
JACKSONVILLE · DUVAL
Middle27.7%-29.4pp
555MIAMI SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL
MIAMI SPRINGS · MIAMI-DADE
Middle27.3%-29.8pp
556PIERCE MIDDLE SCHOOL
TAMPA · HILLSBOROUGH
Middle27.2%-29.9pp
557W. D. SUGG MIDDLE SCHOOL
BRADENTON · MANATEE
Middle27.2%-29.9pp
558ELECTA LEE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL
BRADENTON · MANATEE
Middle27.1%-30.1pp
559YOUNG MENS/WOMENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT EUGENE J BUTLER
JACKSONVILLE · DUVAL
Middle26.5%-30.6pp
560SLEEPY HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL
LAKELAND · POLK
Middle26.4%-30.7pp
561ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL
JACKSONVILLE · DUVAL
Middle25.0%-32.1pp
562GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
TALLAHASSEE · LEON
Middle25.0%-32.1pp
563JAMES A. SHANKS MIDDLE SCHOOL
QUINCY · GADSDEN
Middle24.4%-32.7pp
564MATTHEW W. GILBERT MIDDLE SCHOOL
JACKSONVILLE · DUVAL
Middle23.8%-33.3pp
565SOUTHSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL
JACKSONVILLE · DUVAL
Middle22.1%-35.0pp
566ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
JACKSONVILLE · DUVAL
Middle19.6%-37.5pp
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About this ranking

Schools are ranked by the percentage of students who scored at or above the FAST / B.E.S.T. % at Level 3 or Above threshold on the latest available FAST / B.E.S.T. English Language Arts test (school year 2024-25). A higher percentage is better.

Only public schools with a reasonable cohort size are included (at least 50 total students enrolled, since the source file does not include per-subject student counts), so very small programs and special-purpose centers are filtered out.

The state average shown above is enrollment-weighted: we multiply each school's score by how many of its students tested, sum those across every public school in Florida, and divide by the total students tested. This way a big school counts more than a tiny one in the typical-student average.