# MERRITT BROWN MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/merritt-brown-middle-school-panama-city

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120009002589`
- **School name**: MERRITT BROWN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: PANAMA CITY, FL 32404
- **Address**: 5044 MERRITT BROWN WAY
- **District**: BAY (LEAID `1200090`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 30.24202, -85.56236
- **Phone**: (850)767-3976

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 634
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 51.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (3 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.7% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.9% (156 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 141
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 4.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 82.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 4.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 53.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.6% — 147 students
- **English Learners**: 1.0% — 7 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 70 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 46 students
- **Autism**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,076
- **Federal share**: $1,628
- **State + local share**: $8,447
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,806,672
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 33.0%
- **Local share**: 46.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,489,942

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $79,111
- **Poverty rate**: 5.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.2%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,797
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.8 miles (TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.53 miles (HARRISON AVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BAY COUNTY WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 71% (this school: 48%)
- **NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 48%)
- **NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY** — 2.1 mi away, 68% (this school: 48%)
- **DEER POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 54% (this school: 48%)
- **BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY** — 4.4 mi away, 67% (this school: 48%)

### math proficiency
- **NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 89% (this school: 49%)
- **NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 83% (this school: 49%)
- **NORTH BAY HAVEN CAREER ACADEMY** — 2.1 mi away, 94% (this school: 49%)
- **DEER POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 53% (this school: 49%)
- **BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY** — 4.4 mi away, 75% (this school: 49%)

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