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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,270
Middle
DISTRICT 992 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO·NCES 120153002881
THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
30649 WELLS RD, WESLEY CHAPEL, FL 33545 · (813) 794-0200 · Pasco County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,270 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of Florida public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
61 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.7:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
349 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 369 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 409 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 492 | 39% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
57.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.7pp since 2023
Math
57.9%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.4% | 57.9% |
| 2023-24 | 51.7% | 58.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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%.
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 THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (55.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,270 | 27.5% | 55.9% |
| POLO PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL WELLINGTON | 1,122 | 25.6% | 71.0% |
| CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYNTON BEACH | 1,079 | 30.2% | 70.9% |
| TIMBER SPRINGS MIDDLE ORLANDO | 1,067 | 27.5% | 68.5% |
| BARRINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL LITHIA | 1,345 | 32.7% | 62.0% |
| EAST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL CLERMONT | 1,089 | 20.8% | 66.7% |
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 THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pasco County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.9% | #242 of 560 | #6 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.9% | #275 of 560 ▼ 44 | #6 of 16 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.4% | #233 of 560 ▲ 4 | #4 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,270 | #44 of 584 | #5 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.0:1 | #414 of 547 | #15 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.4% | #27 of 553 | #2 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.5% | #487 of 565 | #11 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +26.6% | #24 of 137 | N/A |
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
1,270
+182 (+17%) vs 2020
-3% since 2000-01, when it was 1,304
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
was 19.8:1
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 | 1,270 | 60.6 | 21.0:1 | 27% (349) |
| 2023-24 | 1,301 | 64.3 | 20.2:1 | 32% (414) |
| 2022-23 | 1,250 | 62.7 | 19.9:1 | 40% (500) |
| 2020-21 | 1,088 | 55 | 19.8:1 | 39% (425) |
| 2017-18 | 1,003 | 65 | 15.4:1 | 52% (521) |
| 2015-16 | 1,138 | 74 | 15.4:1 | 50% (568) |
| 2010-11 | 1,082 | 73 | 14.8:1 | 52% (568) |
| 2000-01 | 1,304 | 67 | 19.5:1 | 35% (459) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Federal records list THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL as a middle school in WESLEY CHAPEL, Florida. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 1,270 students. It has 60% more students than the average for middle schools in Florida (about 794).
PASCO is the local district for THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL. It runs 105 schools with 86,873 students.
White students account for 39% of enrollment at THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, more than any other group. The remaining students are 32% Hispanic, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, and 6% Asian. Among people living in Pasco County, the White share is about 72%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 71%.
The school lists 60.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.0:1. Statewide, middle schools in Florida average 19.6:1. A total of 349 students, or 27%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Pasco County average 37%.
On the allk12 Grade, THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 37% of Florida public middle schools.
THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 11.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (55.9% versus 67.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
Looking at the county, Pasco County, median household income comes to about $70,492, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. The county's public schools total 111, with about 86,873 students.
Of the public schools around it, THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest to WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 9.
Locale data from NCES put THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 1,270, compared with 1,088 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 19.8:1 to 21.0:1.
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Pasco County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
611,444
Census ACS
Median income
$70,492
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
86,873 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PASCO
- LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,233 students
- WIREGRASS RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,218 students
- SUNLAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,206 students
- JAMES W. MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,201 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,006 students
- WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,928 students
Other schools in WESLEY CHAPEL
- WIREGRASS RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,218 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,006 students
- WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,928 students
- DR. JOHN LONG MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,496 students
- PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPELElementary · 1,312 students
- CYPRESS CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,283 students
Nearby schools
- WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,928
- WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 724
- INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY2.0 mi · 1,274
- WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 859
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 2,006
- CYPRESS CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL2.8 mi · 1,283
Frequently asked questions
About THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,270 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 61 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 39% White, 32% Hispanic, 15% Black, 6% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
THOMAS E. WEIGHTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of PASCO.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.