SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a moderately sized junior high in WEBSTER, Florida, part of SUMTER. The school caters to 890 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 12 schools in SUMTER (10,013 students total), SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 61% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Sumter County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Sumter County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.1%; this one delivers 65.1%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Sumter County put median household earnings sit near $76,508, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Sumter County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,013 students), of which SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 58.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOL has ticked up 3%, going from 864 students in 2018 to 890 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 70% to 61% over that span.

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