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Jamaica Elementary School
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AASA 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the AASA, Arizona's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arizona schools, those numbers are about 45 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2017, while math scores are down about 13 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Jamaica Elementary School
Jamaica Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary school in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, run under Lake Havasu Unified District (4368). The school teaches 424 students in grades K through 6.
Lake Havasu Unified District (4368) comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,228 students; Jamaica Elementary School is among them.
On the student-mix side, Jamaica Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Jamaica Elementary School lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Mohave County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $57,684 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Mohave County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,396 students), of which Jamaica Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Starline Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jamaica Elementary School.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Over the past 7-year window. Jamaica Elementary School's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 549 (now 424). The White share of enrollment edged down from 84% to 69% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.
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