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Merritt Brown Middle School, Panama City, FL

CEP schoolMerritt Brown Middle School is a public middle school in Panama City, part of Bay County Public Schools. It enrolled 634 students in 2024-25, with 17.1 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "MERRITT BROWN MIDDLE SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
634
Teachers (FTE)
37.0
Students per teacher
17.1
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 17.1. The Florida average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.1
District17.1
Florida18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
5044 Merritt Brown Way, Panama City, FL 32404
Phone
(850)767-3976
District
Bay County Public Schools
County
Bay County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Midsize
NCES school ID
120009002589
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
307
Reduced-price lunch
17
Free or reduced-price lunch
32451.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification
307Students 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 Bay 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.