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Middle School dismal ELA scores

   June 30, 2023

The City of Pensacola has some of the highest-performing elementary schools in the Escambia County School District. However, the one middle school inside the city limits that serves those children is near the bottom for English Language Arts (ELA):

Workman Middle:  Sixth Grade 24% at or above reading level, Seventh Grade 30%, and Eighth Grade 26%.

Why this matters: How many of the fifth graders at Cordova Park (76%), A.K. Suter (76%), Scenic Heights (57%) and N.B. Cook (71%) will enroll at Workman?

  • The City of Pensacola deserves a better public middle school.
        • Note: Beulah Middle School, the district’s newest middle school, appears to be struggling
        • Bellview Middle will probably be the district’s next charter middle school  – Sixth Grade 13%,  Seventh Grade 19%, and Eighth Grade 24%.
          • It’s percentages are lower than Warrington Middle.

 

School Name Grade Number of Students Mean  Scale Score Percentage in
Level 3 or Above
ESCAMBIA VIRTUAL ACADEMY FRANCHISE 06 15 339 87
BROWN BARGE MIDDLE 06 204 338 75
BEULAH ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 06 103 326 51
GRADE 06 06 216,018 321 47
RANSOM MIDDLE 06 344 322 45
ERNEST WARD MIDDLE 06 154 321 42
JIM C. BAILEY MIDDLE 06 377 316 40
FERRY PASS MIDDLE  06 311 313 36
BEULAH MIDDLE  06 284 314 33
J. H. WORKMAN MIDDLE  06 200 306 24
WARRINGTON MIDDLE  06 161 305 19
BELLVIEW MIDDLE  06 300 301 13

 

School Name Grade Number of Students Mean  Scale Score Percentage in
Level 3 or Above
BROWN BARGE MIDDLE 07 167 344 72
ESCAMBIA VIRTUAL 07 17 335 65
RANSOM MIDDLE 07 393 330 50
ERNEST WARD MIDDLE 07 162 329 48
BEULAH ACADEMY 07 102 334 48
GRADE 07 07 209,002 328 47
BEULAH MIDDLE SCHOOL 07 334 323 36
FERRY PASS MIDDLE  07 330 321 35
JIM C. BAILEY MIDDLE  07 398 323 35
J. H. WORKMAN MIDDLE  07 217 318 30
WARRINGTON MIDDLE  07 175 313 22
BELLVIEW MIDDLE  07 330 311 19

 

School Name Grade Number of Students Mean  Scale Score Percentage in
Level 3 or Above
ESCAMBIA VIRTUAL 08 21 348 81
BROWN BARGE MIDDLE 08 166 344 63
RANSOM MIDDLE SCHOOL 08 428 334 49
ERNEST WARD MIDDLE 08 147 334 48
GRADE 08 08 214,928 332 47
BEULAH ACADEMY 08 105 329 40
FERRY PASS MIDDLE  08 315 326 37
JIM C. BAILEY MIDDLE  08 351 328 36
BEULAH MIDDLE SCHOOL 08 295 328 36
WARRINGTON MIDDLE  08 153 318 29
J. H. WORKMAN MIDDLE  08 254 320 26
BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL 08 289 316 24
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