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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
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Enrollment
1,307
Middle
DISTRICT 947 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM BEACH·NCES 120150003010
WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL
5200 LYONS RD, LAKE WORTH, FL 33467 · (561) 357-0300 · Palm Beach County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,307 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 41% of Florida public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
516 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 | 435 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 432 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 440 | 34% |
Student demographics
71%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
59.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.5pp since 2023
Math
55.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 7 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 | 59.3% | 55.1% |
| 2023-24 | 51.8% | 55.2% |
% 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
53.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL
WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (53.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,307 | 39.5% | 53.8% |
| GOTHA MIDDLE WINDERMERE | 988 | 36.8% | 56.5% |
| WOLF LAKE MIDDLE APOPKA | 1,146 | 43.2% | 60.8% |
| BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL BOCA RATON | 1,058 | 37.5% | 60.4% |
| FOREST GLEN MIDDLE SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 1,037 | 37.3% | 58.5% |
| WATSON B. DUNCAN MIDDLE SCHOOL PALM BEACH GARDENS | 1,042 | 39.0% | 65.0% |
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 WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Palm Beach County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.8% | #275 of 560 | #20 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #304 of 560 ▼ 36 | #22 of 36 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.3% | #202 of 560 ▲ 33 | #19 of 36 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,307 | #33 of 584 | #4 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #185 of 547 | #30 of 36 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.9% | #35 of 553 | #4 of 36 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.5% | #415 of 565 | #20 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.1% | #95 of 137 | #4 of 7 |
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
1,307
-211 (-14%) vs 2020
-24% since 2000-01, when it was 1,717
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 1,307 | 71.5 | 18.3:1 | 39% (516) |
| 2023-24 | 1,242 | 71 | 17.5:1 | 43% (536) |
| 2022-23 | 1,551 | 81 | 19.1:1 | 40% (617) |
| 2020-21 | 1,518 | 83 | 18.3:1 | 54% (821) |
| 2017-18 | 1,232 | 67 | 18.4:1 | 51% (633) |
| 2015-16 | 1,085 | 63 | 17.2:1 | 57% (614) |
| 2010-11 | 1,246 | 69 | 18.1:1 | 47% (584) |
| 2000-01 | 1,717 | 77 | 22.3:1 | 29% (499) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL
WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the name of a large middle school in LAKE WORTH, Florida. Its 1,307 students are spread across grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 65% bigger than the 794 average for middle schools in Florida.
PALM BEACH has 233 schools and 191,505 students, and WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL. The largest is Black students, at 32%. The next largest groups are 31% Hispanic, 30% White, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. In Palm Beach County overall, about 19% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 71.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL was 18.3:1. On average, middle schools in Florida have 19.6:1, compared with 18.3:1 here. WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 39%.
The allk12 Grade for WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL is C+. Compared with Florida public middle schools, the school scored higher than 41% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The model predicts 61.4% for a school in Florida with WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 53.8%.
County data help place the school in context: in 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 closest other public school is DR. JOAQUIN GARCIA HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 8th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 14% from 2020-21, when WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL had 1,518 students, to 2024-25, when it had 1,307.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 LAKE WORTH
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,881 students
- LAKE WORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,589 students
- DR. JOAQUIN GARCIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,541 students
- MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,268 students
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,185 students
- LAKE WORTH COMMUNITY MIDDLEMiddle · 1,136 students
Nearby schools
- DR. JOAQUIN GARCIA HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 2,541
- PALM BEACH SCHOOL FOR AUTISM0.9 mi · 381
- DISCOVERY KEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,032
- CORAL REEF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 978
- PANTHER RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 794
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON2.3 mi · 682
Frequently asked questions
About WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,307 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 18.3:1 (72 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 30% White, 31% Hispanic, 32% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of PALM BEACH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.