# WALTON MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/walton-middle-school-defuniak-springs

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120198002024`
- **School name**: WALTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, FL 32435
- **Address**: 605 BRUCE AVE
- **District**: WALTON (LEAID `1201980`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 30.71254, -86.11198
- **Phone**: (850)892-1281

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 796
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.3%

## 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 23.5% (176 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 10.6% (82 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 85
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 9.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 67.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 6.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.6% — 136 students
- **English Learners**: 4.8% — 37 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,339
- **Federal share**: $1,530
- **State + local share**: $12,808
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,791,433
- **Federal share**: 12.6%
- **State share**: 11.8%
- **Local share**: 75.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,065,155

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $63,102
- **Poverty rate**: 21.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.5%
- **Unemployment**: 9.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $699
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 42.7 miles (SAPP BATTERY SALVAGE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 33.23 miles (FORMER LAMB S RECYCLING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DEFUNIAK SPRINGS W/S, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **WALTON VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.68%)
- **WEST DEFUNIAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 1.29% (this school: 1.68%)
- **WALTON HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 1.22% (this school: 1.68%)
- **WALTON INITIATIVE FOR SUCCESS IN EDUCATION (WISE)** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.68%)
- **MAUDE SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.68%)

### ela proficiency
- **MAUDE SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 65% (this school: 63%)
- **FREEPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 11.7 mi away, 71% (this school: 63%)
- **MOSSY HEAD SCHOOL** — 13.2 mi away, 63.5% (this school: 63%)
- **FREEPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 14.1 mi away, 69% (this school: 63%)
- **FREEPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 14.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 63%)

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