WILDWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

WILDWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, a small elementary school in WILDWOOD, Florida, operated by SUMTER, instructs 409 students, covering grades 3 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 32% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

Within SUMTER, which oversees 12 schools and 10,013 students, WILDWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, WILDWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 31% White, 27% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the resource side, On paper, WILDWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Sumter County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILDWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.3%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of -5.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sumter County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $76,508 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Sumter County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,013 students), of which WILDWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WILDWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 57.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

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