Campbell Middle School, Daytona Beach FL

Original Research by School Decision on Campbell Middle School

Campbell Middle School sits in a residential stretch of Daytona Beach, serving sixth through eighth graders as a regular public school within the Volusia County district. The school draws from a community shaped by a coastal economy anchored in tourism, hospitality, and retail, alongside larger institutional employers in healthcare and higher education. Housing near the school falls well below Florida statewide medians, and home values in the surrounding zip code have dipped modestly year over year, putting this among the more affordable corners of the Florida coastal market. Rents are running at a level that takes a meaningful share of a typical household's monthly income.

The student body is majority Black, with Hispanic and white students making up most of the remaining enrollment. The school is large relative to what you would expect for a middle school serving three grades. A very high share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, one of the clearest markers of concentrated economic need. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs were not available in the data provided, so a parent with specific questions about those populations should ask the school directly.

On state assessments, the picture is one a parent should look at closely. Florida's FAST assessments show that fewer than half of students in each grade are reaching proficiency in English language arts, with sixth graders just above a third, seventh graders below a third, and eighth graders approaching a third. Math results run somewhat stronger in eighth grade, where about half of students tested proficient, but sixth and seventh grade math is in the same general range as ELA. On the eighth grade science assessment, roughly a third of students reached proficiency. Across all tested grades and subjects, these results sit in the lower range, and a parent whose child is working at or above grade level may want to ask the school specifically how it structures academic challenge and supports advancement. Multi-year trend data was not available, so there is no way from this data to say whether results are improving, stable, or declining.

Program information was not available in the data provided. Whether the school offers accelerated coursework, elective pathways, extracurriculars, or other enrichment programs is not something this data can address, and those questions would be worth putting directly to the school or the Volusia district office.

Chronic absenteeism and discipline data were also not part of the available record. Both can matter a good deal in understanding day-to-day school environment at the middle school level, and a parent would be reasonable to ask about those figures when visiting or contacting the school. The comparison set for this school covers only a single district in Volusia County, so meaningful peer comparisons were not possible from this data.

Daytona Beach itself is a city with real texture. The downtown along Beach Street and the Halifax River has a walkable core with restaurants, galleries, and civic institutions, while the beachside strip carries heavier tourist and seasonal activity. The broader city is car-dependent outside those pockets. Major institutional employers including Halifax Health, AdventHealth, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Bethune-Cookman University give the local economy more range than a pure resort town. The city has been in a period of residential growth, concentrated mostly along corridors north and west of the historic core, though that construction pace has moderated from its recent peak. The school itself sits on South Keech Street, near the Dickerson neighborhood branch library, in a part of the city that is more residential than tourist-facing.

The Volusia district brief returned no confirmed parent-relevant policy or program changes, so that layer was left out rather than speculated on.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 50% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 737%

School 37% · District 34% · ▲ 3 pts above district

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

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 56% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 635%

School 35% · District 53% · ▼ 18 pts below district

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

Grade 728%

School 28% · District 51% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 831%

School 31% · District 52% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Science

Grade 834%

School 34% · District 56% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

This schoolVOLUSIA, 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-income36%Higher-income24%12 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income28%Higher-income31%3 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income32%Higher-income29%3 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income37%Higher-income36%2 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income38%Higher-income29%9 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income48%Higher-income60%12 pp gap