Panama City Beach, FL schools
Panama City Beach’s public schools score close to Florida’s averages: 51% of students are proficient in reading against 52% statewide, and 89% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.3%. Kids attend Breakfast Point Academy or Surfside Middle School or Hutchison Beach Elementary School through grade 12, then Breakfast Point Academy or Surfside Middle School and J.R. Arnold High School or Surfside Middle School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Panama City Beach’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Panama City Beach’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 55% of Florida’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Florida’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Florida only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Florida with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Panama City Beach kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Close to the state in reading
89% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #482 of 631 FL towns →
The district serving Panama City Beach
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Panama City Beach
There’s no college in Panama City Beach, but 1 college is within 30 miles. The closest is Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, 9.5 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Panama City Beach. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 4 schools in Panama City Beach
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.