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What's the one class at SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
923
Middle
DISTRICT 712 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OKALOOSA·NCES 120138001325
SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL
3200 E REDSTONE AVE, CRESTVIEW, FL 32539 · (850) 689-7229 · Okaloosa County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL923 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.0:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
533 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 298 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 333 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 292 | 32% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
63.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.3pp since 2023
Math
72.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.9% | 72.3% |
| 2023-24 | 57.5% | 69.5% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
66.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL
SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (66.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 923 | 57.7% | 66.6% |
| LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 865 | 58.0% | 70.4% |
| SUWANNEE MIDDLE SCHOOL LIVE OAK | 971 | 58.7% | 51.2% |
| PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT CHARLOTTE | 858 | 53.5% | 57.0% |
| CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST MELBOURNE | 1,059 | 53.1% | 51.0% |
| SILVER SANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT ORANGE | 1,199 | 54.5% | 54.7% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Okaloosa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.6% | #122 of 560 | #5 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #129 of 560 ▼ 3 | #5 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #158 of 560 ▲ 8 | #5 of 9 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 923 | #198 of 584 | #3 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #271 of 547 | #4 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.7% | #98 of 553 | #3 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.7% | #203 of 565 | #4 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.0% | #81 of 137 | #3 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
923
+9 (+1%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 1,066
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 21.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 923 | 48 | 19.2:1 | 58% (533) |
| 2023-24 | 895 | 45 | 19.9:1 | 53% (478) |
| 2022-23 | 927 | 44 | 21.1:1 | 55% (514) |
| 2020-21 | 914 | 43 | 21.3:1 | 55% (506) |
| 2017-18 | 855 | 45 | 19.0:1 | 51% (432) |
| 2015-16 | 839 | 46 | 18.2:1 | 48% (403) |
| 2010-11 | 816 | 48 | 17.0:1 | 35% (284) |
| 2000-01 | 787 | 37 | 21.3:1 | 40% (316) |
| 1990-91 | 1,066 | 52 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL
SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public mid-sized middle school in CRESTVIEW, Florida. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 923 students.
Across its 49 schools, OKALOOSA enrolls 32,120 students. SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The student body at SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL has no majority group. White students lead at 50%. Enrollment also includes 18% Black, 15% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The school's White share is 22 points below the 72% share among Okaloosa County residents. A diversity index of 68% means there is a 68% chance two randomly chosen students at SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
Classroom staffing at SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL totals 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 19.2:1. The average for middle schools in Florida is about 19.6:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 58%.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 52.2%. SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 66.6%, 14.4 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
For the population of Okaloosa County, the median household earns about $81,998 a year, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Okaloosa County with 50 other public schools.
A public school about 0.1 miles away, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is the closest to SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Federal records code the school's setting as Town: Distant.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 914 in 2020-21 and 923 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 21.3:1 to 19.2:1.
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Okaloosa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
216,599
Census ACS
Median income
$81,998
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
32,120 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OKALOOSA
- CRESTVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,376 students
- NICEVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,036 students
- CHOCTAWHATCHEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,720 students
- FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,550 students
- BAKER SCHOOLCombined · 1,434 students
- DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,111 students
Other schools in CRESTVIEW
- CRESTVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,376 students
- DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,111 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,032 students
- ANTIOCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 931 students
- WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 875 students
- NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 814 students
Nearby schools
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,032
- SOUTHSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 260
- OKALOOSA ONLINE NON FRANCHISED2.2 mi · 581
- WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 875
- CRESTVIEW YOUTH ACADEMY (NON SECURE)2.7 mi · 23
- CRESTVIEW YOUTH ACADEMY2.7 mi · 11
Frequently asked questions
About SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 923 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 19.2:1 (48 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 50% White, 15% Hispanic, 18% Black, 2% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by OKALOOSA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.