# ERNEST WARD MIDDLE SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ernest-ward-middle-school-walnut-hill/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ernest-ward-middle-school-walnut-hill

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120051000813`
- **School name**: ERNEST WARD MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: WALNUT HILL, FL 32568
- **Address**: 7650 HIGHWAY 97
- **District**: ESCAMBIA (LEAID `1200510`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 30.89794, -87.47585
- **Phone**: (850)761-6301

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 434
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 43.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 32.8% (160 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.4% (41 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 30
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 2.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 14.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 71.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 5.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 49.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.3% — 75 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,206
- **Federal share**: $1,652
- **State + local share**: $8,554
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,185,721
- **Federal share**: 20.6%
- **State share**: 40.7%
- **Local share**: 38.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,611,179

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $70,551
- **Poverty rate**: 13.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.4%
- **Unemployment**: 8.6%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 30.0 miles (WHITING FIELD NAVAL AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.35 miles (FORMER YMCA ATMORE)

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 1.03% (this school: 1.22%)
- **NORTHVIEW HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.3 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 1.22%)

### ela proficiency
- **BRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 54% (this school: 51%)
- **BYRNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC.** — 10.0 mi away, 58% (this school: 51%)
- **MOLINO PARK ELEMENTARY** — 12.8 mi away, 62% (this school: 51%)

### math proficiency
- **MOLINO PARK ELEMENTARY** — 12.8 mi away, 79% (this school: 60%)

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

---
*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.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*