Narcoossee Middle School, Saint Cloud FL

Original Research by School Decision on Narcoossee Middle School

Narcoossee Middle School sits on North Narcoossee Road in Saint Cloud, a fast-growing city on the eastern edge of Osceola County. It serves sixth through eighth graders as a standard public middle school within the Osceola district, and its enrollment puts it well above the typical size for a school at this grade band. The student body is majority Hispanic, with White students making up roughly a fifth of enrollment, and smaller shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. Close to half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Narcoossee in moderate economic territory for a Florida public middle school.

State assessment results come from Florida's FAST assessments and the Statewide Science Assessment, all from the most recent school year. The picture is uneven by grade and subject. Sixth-grade math stands out as a clear strength, with most students reaching proficiency. Eighth-grade math and eighth-grade ELA land in a similar range, solid without being exceptional. Sixth-grade ELA and eighth-grade science show more modest proficiency, with roughly half to slightly above half of students meeting the bar. The weakest result is seventh-grade math, where proficiency falls noticeably below the other grades, dipping to well under a third of students. That single figure is a meaningful gap, and parents of rising seventh graders may want to ask the school directly about what supports are in place for that grade level. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible from this data to say whether results are improving, holding, or declining.

IEP and English Learner rates were not reported in the data provided, so the depth of special education and language support services at Narcoossee is not something that can be characterized here. Parents with students who need those services should inquire directly with the school. No program offerings data was available either, so extracurriculars, electives, or enrichment tracks are not something this account can speak to.

The comparison data for Osceola County contains only one district, which means a meaningful peer comparison on proficiency, graduation, or chronic absenteeism was not possible. Graduation rate does not apply here because the school ends at eighth grade. Chronic absenteeism data was absent from the record.

The surrounding community explains a good deal about what families will find. Saint Cloud has grown at a striking pace, its population roughly doubling in just a few years, and the city is actively annexing land and updating land-use plans to accommodate tens of thousands of projected new residents. New master-planned communities are under construction, and a major downtown mixed-use development is underway near City Hall. That kind of rapid growth typically puts pressure on school capacity, staffing, and infrastructure, and it is worth asking the school and district how enrollment growth is being managed. Publicly reported accounts note that residents have raised concerns about traffic and road improvements lagging behind the pace of development.

On the housing side, home values in the zip code are well above both the Florida median and the national median, and have pulled back modestly year over year. Rents are similarly elevated, with the rent-to-income ratio running at a level that makes affordability a real consideration for families entering the market. The mortgage burden at current rates is substantial. This is, in short, a market that has become meaningfully more expensive over the past few years, even as prices have cooled slightly.

The district brief search was exhausted without finding parent-relevant changes to report, so any recent policy shifts or capital investments at the district level are not covered here.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 670%

School 70% · District 49% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 728%

School 28% · District 38% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 52% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 660%

School 60% · District 52% · ▲ 8 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 752%

School 52% · District 49% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 861%

School 61% · District 49% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Science

Grade 855%

School 55% · District 43% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

This schoolOSCEOLA, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income50%Higher-income68%17 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income42%Higher-income61%19 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income53%Higher-income69%16 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income63%Higher-income77%13 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income24%Higher-income34%10 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income54%Higher-income71%17 pp gap