SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL

SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a sizable middle-grades school in HAINES CITY, Florida, part of POLK. Current enrollment sits at 1,329 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 67% bigger than that benchmark.

POLK runs 163 schools in total, collectively educating 116,552 students. SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder comes out to 28% Black, 11% White. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.7%; actual is 30.4%, a gap of -18.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,978, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Polk County's 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HAINES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 27% since 2018, when it stood at 1,045 (now 1,329). Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 21% to 28%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 26.6:1 today.

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