# DESTIN MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120138003211`
- **School name**: DESTIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: DESTIN, FL 32541
- **Address**: 4608 LEGENDARY MARINA DR
- **District**: OKALOOSA (LEAID `1201380`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 30.39918, -86.42519
- **Phone**: (850)833-7655

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 799
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 43.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: A

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.8% (167 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.1% (103 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 51
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 8.8%
- **Black/African American**: 2.6%
- **Asian**: 4.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 78.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 35.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.2% — 87 students
- **English Learners**: 5.8% — 49 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,063
- **Federal share**: $224
- **State + local share**: $8,840
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,753,989
- **Federal share**: 19.6%
- **State share**: 37.4%
- **Local share**: 43.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,747,155

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $113,516
- **Poverty rate**: 4.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 58.2%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,155
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 41.4 miles (WHITING FIELD NAVAL AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.43 miles (FORMER HAPPY STORE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DESTIN WATER USERS, INC.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 0.64% (this school: 0.94%)
- **BLUEWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.94%)
- **ADDIE R. LEWIS SCHOOL** — 7.6 mi away, 0.89% (this school: 0.94%)
- **JAMES E PLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.94%)
- **EGLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.94%)

### ela proficiency
- **BLUEWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.3 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 75%)
- **JAMES E PLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.2 mi away, 79.5% (this school: 75%)
- **C. W. RUCKEL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 9.0 mi away, 76% (this school: 75%)
- **OKALOOSA STEMM CENTER** — 9.1 mi away, 98% (this school: 75%)
- **COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL AT NORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE** — 10.1 mi away, 89% (this school: 75%)

### math proficiency
- **JAMES E PLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.2 mi away, 84% (this school: 82%)
- **C. W. RUCKEL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 9.0 mi away, 86% (this school: 82%)
- **OKALOOSA STEMM CENTER** — 9.1 mi away, 98% (this school: 82%)
- **COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL AT NORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE** — 10.1 mi away, 88% (this school: 82%)
- **VAN R. BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 10.1 mi away, 86% (this school: 82%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/destin-middle-school-destin
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/destin-middle-school-destin/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/destin-middle-school-destin/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/destin-middle-school-destin/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/destin-middle-school-destin/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/destin-middle-school-destin/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/destin-middle-school-destin/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/destin-middle-school-destin/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/destin-middle-school-destin/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/destin-middle-school-destin/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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