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What's the biggest difference between WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE and what you expected?
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Enrollment
1,227
Middle
DISTRICT 947 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM BEACH·NCES 120150002578
WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE
1100 AERO CLUB DR, WELLINGTON, FL 33414 · (561) 792-8100 · Palm Beach County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,227 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Florida public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
18.3:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
290 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 391 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 394 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 442 | 36% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
72.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
74.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 2 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 | 72.5% | 74.3% |
| 2023-24 | 70.7% | 74.3% |
% 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
70.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE
WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE's state test result (70.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE this school | 1,227 | 23.6% | 70.5% |
| WINDY HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL CLERMONT | 1,017 | 23.3% | 58.5% |
| LOGGERS' RUN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL BOCA RATON | 1,114 | 23.2% | 71.5% |
| CYPRESS CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL WESLEY CHAPEL | 1,283 | 26.4% | 58.7% |
| EAGLES LANDING MIDDLE SCHOOL BOCA RATON | 1,466 | 22.6% | 68.9% |
| 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 WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Palm Beach County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #85 of 560 | #7 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.3% | #115 of 560 ▼ 17 | #10 of 36 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.5% | #81 of 560 ▼ 23 | #7 of 36 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,227 | #51 of 584 | #10 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #192 of 547 | #31 of 36 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.4% | #151 of 553 | #13 of 36 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.6% | #506 of 565 | #30 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.5% | #277 of 379 | #17 of 27 |
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
1,227
-32 (-3%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 1,423
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 1,227 | 67 | 18.3:1 | 24% (290) |
| 2023-24 | 1,221 | 62 | 19.7:1 | 26% (318) |
| 2022-23 | 1,230 | 67 | 18.4:1 | 29% (354) |
| 2020-21 | 1,259 | 67 | 18.8:1 | 39% (494) |
| 2017-18 | 1,326 | 77 | 17.2:1 | 35% (464) |
| 2015-16 | 1,063 | 55 | 19.3:1 | 37% (394) |
| 2010-11 | 1,264 | 68 | 18.6:1 | 26% (323) |
| 2000-01 | 1,502 | 67 | 22.4:1 | 11% (172) |
| 1990-91 | 1,423 | 79 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE.
About WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE
WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE is a large middle-grades school with its address in WELLINGTON, Florida. A federal count lists 1,227 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in Florida) has about 794 students.
The district for WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE is PALM BEACH, with 233 schools and 191,505 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE. The largest is White students, at 41%. The remaining students are 40% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Census figures show Palm Beach County is about 53% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at the school number 67 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 18.3:1. On average, middle schools in Florida have 19.6:1, compared with 18.3:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 24% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Palm Beach County report 45%.
The allk12 Grade for WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE is A-. Compared with Florida public middle schools, the school scored higher than 77% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE is 1.2 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
Across Palm Beach County, the median household income is $83,581, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. In all, Palm Beach County has 245 public schools and roughly 192,831 students.
The next-closest public school is BINKS FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.0 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 70.5% is above the 62.9% average for nearby schools.
WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 32 fewer students in 2024-25.
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Palm Beach County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,533,806
Census ACS
Median income
$83,581
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
192,831 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PALM BEACH
- JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,262 students
- JUPITER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,122 students
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,881 students
- BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,819 students
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- PALM BEACH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,760 students
Other schools in WELLINGTON
- PALM BEACH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,760 students
- WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,689 students
- BINKS FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,246 students
- EMERALD COVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,221 students
- POLO PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,122 students
- WELLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Nearby schools
- BINKS FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,246
- WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 2,689
- WELLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 897
- NEW HORIZONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 745
- WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL2.7 mi · 711
- LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY2.8 mi · 695
Frequently asked questions
About WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLEWhat is the total enrollment at WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE?
WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE enrolls approximately 1,227 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE serve?
WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE have?
WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE employs 67 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.3:1.
What is the student diversity at WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE?
Student demographics at WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE are roughly 41% White, 40% Hispanic, 11% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE public or private?
WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE is a public K-12 school, overseen by PALM BEACH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.