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SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 91% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL
SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL is a high school of low-enrollment scale in SANTA ROSA BEACH, Florida, operated by WALTON, instructing 501 students in grades 5 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 1,035.
WALTON comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 12,069 students; SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (85%) are White; the rest looks like 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. About 3% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Walton County (around 47%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.6%; this one delivers 90.6%.
Zooming out to the county, Walton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,986 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL is one of 26 public schools in Walton County (combined enrollment of about 12,069 students).
EMERALD COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 76.7%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting. As a public charter, SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL has climbed 44%, going from 347 students in 2018 to 501 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.
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