The top reported proficiency rate is 60% in Math. The lowest is 48% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Roulhac Middle School
Roulhac Middle School serves sixth through eighth graders in Chipley, the county seat of Washington County in Florida's rural Northwest Panhandle. The school sits on Brickyard Road, on the same corridor that has drawn newer school construction away from the older town center, and it is a conventional public middle school with no charter or magnet designation.
The student body is a few hundred strong, a size typical for a single middle school serving a small rural district. Roughly half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which tells you this is a community with a meaningful share of lower-income families. The student population is predominantly white, with a smaller share of Black students and smaller groups representing Hispanic, multiracial, and other backgrounds. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in the records reviewed.
On Florida's FAST assessments in the most recent school year, Roulhac's results were mixed by grade and subject. Math proficiency was solidest in eighth grade, somewhat lower in seventh, and close to eighth-grade levels in sixth. ELA proficiency was nearest to math in sixth grade, then fell in seventh and eighth. The eighth-grade statewide science assessment showed less than half of students scoring proficient, which is the softer spot in the picture. Taken together, most students across most tested grades are reaching proficiency in reading and math, though a meaningful share are not, particularly in seventh-grade ELA. A parent who wants to understand how their child's individual performance compares to these school-wide patterns, or what supports are available for students below grade level, would benefit from asking the school directly. Trend data across prior years was not available for comparison.
The comparison framework available here covers Washington County, which has only one district, so no meaningful peer ranking is possible from this data set.
Programmatically, the school publicly reports a six-sport athletics program covering football, baseball, softball, boys and girls basketball, and volleyball. Beyond athletics, course access, staffing ratios, extracurricular breadth, and attendance figures were not available in the data reviewed.
The district has two developments families should track. A November 2026 ballot referendum, if approved by voters, would shift up to three-quarters of a mill from capital to operating funding for several years starting in mid-2027, directed at teacher and staff recruitment, curriculum, special-needs services, career and technical education, and technology. This is framed publicly as tax-neutral. The district is also completing a new K-12 English Language Arts curriculum adoption in 2026, replacing the previous cycle of materials, which will change what reading and writing instruction looks like at Roulhac and across every grade in the district.
Chipley itself is a small, working rural county seat with a traditional downtown around Jackson Avenue, government services, a community hospital that is one of the larger local employers, and an economy anchored by health care, manufacturing, and public-sector work. Daily life is car-dependent. Outdoor amenities are nearby, including Falling Waters State Park just south of town. New residential construction is active within the broader zip code, concentrated in the Sunny Hills area rather than in Chipley's incorporated center.
The housing market in the zip code sits well below both state and national medians, making this one of the more affordable corners of Florida. Home values have dipped modestly in the past year. Rental price data was not available for this specific market.
For a family moving to Chipley or already living there, Roulhac is the one middle school option in the district. Academic results suggest a school where a solid majority of students reach proficiency but where roughly a third to half in some subjects and grades are not there yet, and the ELA curriculum change and funding referendum are live variables that will shape the classroom experience over the next few years.
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