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.
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- 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.
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| 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 |