Ferry Pass Middle, 8355 Yancey Ave.: grades 6-8, 897 students (2024-25), a B in Florida's 2026 school grades. Zoned for the Scenic Heights area. 850-494-5650.
Last checked Oct. 11, 2026. Sources: Escambia County Public Schools and its Find Your School lookup, the school’s website, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades, the federal NCES school directory and the Census Bureau’s geocoder.
Ferry Pass Middle School is the Escambia County Public Schools middle school on Yancey Avenue. It has a Pensacola mailing address but sits outside the city limits, in the unincorporated Ferry Pass community north of the city, according to the Census Bureau’s geocoder. Inside Pensacola, it is the zoned middle school for the Scenic Heights area in the northeast part of the city.
Who to call
- Front office: 850-494-5650, 8355 Yancey Ave., Pensacola, FL 32514
- School website: ferrypassms.escambiaschools.org
- Enrollment, transfers and school choice: Enrollment Services, 850-469-5580; Enrollment Services page
- Buses: Transportation dispatch, 850-469-5490 or 850-469-5678, staffed every school day (transportation contacts)
| Address | 8355 Yancey Ave., Pensacola, FL 32514 |
| Phone | 850-494-5650 |
| Grades | 6 to 8 |
| Principal | Joshua Jackson |
| 2026 state grade | B (63% of points) |
| City limits | Outside (Ferry Pass) |
Principal. Joshua Jackson is the principal, according to the school’s administration page. Marietta Britt-McCaskill is assistant principal.
Enrollment and teachers
- Federal count: 897 students in the 2024-25 school year, with 48 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 19 students per teacher.
- State figure: the school’s state report card carries current enrollment by grade and student group; it is an interactive dashboard that could not be read for this page.
State report card
Florida gave Ferry Pass Middle a B in its 2026 school grades, after a C in 2025 and a B in 2024. The school earned 63% of the points possible, one point below the A line, according to the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades file. The file lists 96.2% of its students as economically disadvantaged, and it is a Title I school.
| 2026 school grade measure | Result |
|---|---|
| School grade | B (63% of points) |
| English language arts achievement | 50% |
| English language arts learning gains | 56% |
| Math achievement | 59% |
| Math learning gains | 63% |
| Science achievement | 54% |
| Social studies achievement | 71% |
| Middle school acceleration | 97% |
Florida grades schools A to F on the share of possible points earned across these measures. Achievement is the share of tested students on grade level; learning gains is the share who improved from the year before. For a middle school, A is 64% of points or more, B is 57% to 63% and C is 44% to 56%, the state’s file says.
Attendance zone and feeder schools
Escambia County assigns schools by street address, and zones do not follow city limits. Type any address and ZIP code into the district’s Find Your School lookup to see its zoned schools for 2026-27.
We ran one residential parcel from each of 347 blocks of the city through that lookup, weighted by the 22,294 homes the Escambia County Property Appraiser lists inside the city limits. About 15% were zoned for Ferry Pass Middle. Nearly all of them were in the Scenic Heights Elementary zone, with a few blocks in the Reinhardt Holm Elementary zone. The rest of the city is zoned for J.H. Workman Middle or Warrington Preparatory Academy. Most of Ferry Pass Middle’s zone lies outside the city, and our check did not cover those addresses.
Feeder schools. The district does not publish a feeder list. Every Pensacola address we checked that was zoned for Ferry Pass Middle was zoned for Booker T. Washington High.
Changes approved. The district’s School Attendance Zone Advisory Committee posts its approved maps on its 2023-24 attendance zone maps page; the only change there is to Pleasant Grove Elementary, and none touches Ferry Pass Middle.
Calendar and bell times
From the district’s 2026-27 academic calendar (PDF), approved by the School Board on Feb. 18, 2025:
- Tuesday, Oct. 13: second nine weeks begins
- Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, no school
- Nov. 23-27: fall break, including Thanksgiving
- Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: Christmas break; the third nine weeks begins Tuesday, Jan. 5
- March 22-26, 2027: spring break
Bell times. The school’s website does not post its daily schedule; call the front office at 850-494-5650.
Activities
The school’s site has athletics pages for basketball, cheerleading, swimming, track and volleyball, and its athletics page links the district’s required athletic forms and GoFan tickets. It also lists culinary arts under workforce education, Odyssey of the Mind, music, student government and a PTSA.
More on Pensacola schools
- The district’s middle school directory, with the principal and phone for every middle school
- Every public school in Pensacola, with zones and report cards
- Our Pensacola schools guide for the full calendar, enrollment steps and School Board meetings
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Ferry Pass Middle School serve?
Ferry Pass Middle serves grades 6 through 8. It is at 8355 Yancey Ave., and its main line is 850-494-5650.
What is Ferry Pass Middle School’s Florida school grade?
Ferry Pass Middle earned a B in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 63% of possible points, up from a C in 2025.
Which Pensacola addresses are zoned for Ferry Pass Middle?
About 15% of the residential parcels inside the city limits were zoned for Ferry Pass Middle in our check of the district’s Find Your School lookup, nearly all of them in the Scenic Heights Elementary zone in the northeast part of the city.
Which high school does Ferry Pass Middle feed into?
The district does not publish a feeder list. Every Pensacola address we checked that was zoned for Ferry Pass Middle was zoned for Booker T. Washington High.
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