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Middle · Regular · Grades 7 to 8

Lake City Middle School, Lake City, FL

CEP schoolLake City Middle School is a public middle school in Lake City, part of Columbia County Public Schools. It enrolled 809 students in 2024-25, with 18.8 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "LAKE CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
809
Teachers (FTE)
43.0
Students per teacher
18.8
Grades
7 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 18.1. The Florida average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.8
District18.1
Florida18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
843 SW Arlington Blvd, Lake City, FL 32025
Phone
(386)758-4800
District
Columbia County Public Schools
County
Columbia County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Distant
NCES school ID
120036002732
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
395
Reduced-price lunch
28
Free or reduced-price lunch
42352.3% of enrollment.
Direct certification
395Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Columbia County Public Schools

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.