Public school / Middle
Ernest Ward Middle School
Walnut Hill, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120051000813
- District
- Escambia
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ernest Ward Middle School is a public middle school in Walnut Hill, Florida, run by Escambia. It enrols 486 students — the 38978th largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
486
Teachers
22.0
Students per teacher
22.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
48.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Escambia
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1J. M. Tate Senior High School2,110 students
- 2Pine Forest High School1,870 students
- 3Washington Senior High School1,733 students
- 4Escambia High School1,655 students
- 5West Florida High School/Technical1,277 students
- 6Pensacola High School1,229 students
- 7Ransom Middle School1,224 students
- 8Jim C. Bailey Middle School1,159 students
- Enrollment−20.8%
- Teachers−42.1%
- Students per teacher+30.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−15.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory