The top reported proficiency rate is 79% in Science. The lowest is 73% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Yulee Middle School
Yulee Middle School sits on Miner Road in Yulee, an unincorporated community in Nassau County tucked between Interstate 95 and the Intracoastal Waterway. The school serves sixth through eighth grade as a regular public school in the Nassau County School District, drawing from a community that has been one of the fastest-growing areas in Northeast Florida, driven by the Wildlight master-planned development east of I-95 and a steady influx of families relocating from Jacksonville and coastal Georgia.
The school's academic results on Florida's FAST assessments are, overall, strong. Math proficiency among sixth and seventh graders comes in well above what most parents would consider a solid benchmark, and those rates hold consistently across both grades. Eighth-grade math proficiency is meaningfully lower, a drop that a parent may want to ask the school about directly, since that grade-level shift stands out against the rest of the picture. Reading and ELA results across all three grades cluster in the low-to-mid seventies range, which is respectable by state standards, and eighth-grade science proficiency is high, making science one of the school's clearer strengths. Multi-year trend data was not available in the data provided, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent an improvement or a plateau.
Because Nassau County has only a single school district, a meaningful same-county comparison against peer districts is not possible with the data at hand. State-level framing, rather than a county peer group, gives the fuller context here.
Enrollment is large for a middle school. The student body is predominantly white, with Hispanic and Black students each making up a meaningful share, and smaller populations across other racial and ethnic groups. About two in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a moderate share that reflects Yulee's mixed economic character: newer subdivisions attracting professionals commuting to Jacksonville alongside older, more rural pockets. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not reported in the data provided, so families with children in those populations may want to ask the school directly about support services and staffing.
The community around the school is worth understanding plainly. Yulee is fully car-dependent. There is no traditional downtown, no pedestrian street life outside the planned Wildlight development, and civic life is organized around dispersed campuses: a county library branch on the Florida State College at Jacksonville campus, parks along the Nassau River, and a sports complex. The housing market here sits above the Florida statewide median home value and has been essentially flat over the past year, while rents have ticked slightly upward. Buyers financing at current mortgage rates would be spending a substantial share of a typical income on housing costs, which is worth factoring alongside the school district's approved property tax increase. Nassau County voters passed a millage referendum in November 2022, publicly reported, adding to annual property taxes on an ongoing basis to fund teacher pay, arts, athletics, and safety programs.
One district-level development that families may want to research further: in September 2024, Nassau County School District settled a federal lawsuit over the removal of approximately three dozen library books, publicly reported, agreeing to return all of them to school library shelves. The removed titles included works addressing LGBTQ+ themes and racial content. The settlement and the events leading to it reflect a policy environment that some families will find relevant when assessing the district's overall approach to curriculum and library access.
Program data for Yulee Middle School specifically was not available in the data provided. Families looking for information on electives, advanced coursework, extracurricular offerings, or special programs should ask the school directly or consult the district's course catalog.
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