Middle · Florida
Brooksville Engineering Science and Technology (B.E.S.T.)
CharterFree meals for allBrooksville Engineering Science and Technology (B.E.S.T.), a public middle school in Brooksville, Florida: grades 6–8, 88 students, 14.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Hernando.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 88
- Teachers (FTE)
- 6.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.7
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 96% of middle schools in Florida
Median 19.2 · 571 schools compared
More students per teacher than 51% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 98% of middle schools in Florida
Median 805 · 581 schools compared
Smaller than 95% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Florida's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Florida: 57%69%proficient
+9.7 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 80% of middle schools in Florida
Median 54% · 581 middle schools compared
83 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · FAST; proficient means Levels 3-5
Math
Florida: 59%60%proficient
+13.8 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 64% of middle schools in Florida
Median 52% · 581 middle schools compared
72 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · FAST; proficient means Levels 3-5
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- Charter school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Town near a city
- Run by
- Hernando
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Hernando.
Location
- Address
- 835 School St, Brooksville, FL 34601
- Phone
- (352)544-2373
- City or town
- South Brooksville
- County
- Hernando County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D. S. Parrott Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 745 | 19.6 | 46% | 51% |
West Hernando Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 666 | 17.5 | 55% | 56% |
Powell Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 1,041 | 18.9 | 52% | 57% |
Gulf Coast Academy of Science and TechnologyCharterFree meals for all | 6–8 | 217 | 18.1 | 78% | 76% |
Fox Chapel Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 815 | 18.1 | 44% | 39% |
Crews Lake Middle School.Free meals for all | 6–8 | 709 | 16.4 | 45% | 45% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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