ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY

ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY is an elementary school of rural-scale scale in ALACHUA, Florida, overseen by ALACHUA, caters to 108 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 82% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

ALACHUA comprises 60 schools with combined enrollment of 28,255 students; ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY is among them.

In terms of who attends, ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY lists that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 59.8%; ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY posts 84.5%, +24.7 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Alachua County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,949 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Alachua County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,618 students), of which ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY is one.

ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area. As a public charter, ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY ELEMENTARY's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 109 (now 108). Hispanic enrollment moved from 17% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 27.3:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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