Public school / Other
Walton Initiative for Success in Education (Wise)
Defuniak Springs, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120198007690
- District
- Walton
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Walton Initiative for Success in Education (Wise) is a public other school in Defuniak Springs, Florida, run by Walton. It enrols 215 students — the 76327th 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
215
Teachers
21.0
Students per teacher
10.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
74.9%
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 Walton
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.
- 1South Walton High School1,235 students
- 2Freeport Elementary School1,123 students
- 3Van R. Butler Elementary School1,013 students
- 4Dune Lakes Elementary School928 students
- 5Emerald Coast Middle School868 students
- 6Walton High School856 students
- 7Paxton School819 students
- 8Walton Middle School801 students
- Enrollment−65.0%
- Teachers−44.7%
- Students per teacher−39.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+30.0%
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