APALACHICOLA FOREST YOUTH ACADEMY

APALACHICOLA FOREST YOUTH ACADEMY is a tiny all-grades campus in BRISTOL, Florida, one of the schools within LIBERTY. The school educates 23 students in grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 353 students per school, that is 93% below typical.

Within LIBERTY, which oversees 7 schools and 1,264 students, APALACHICOLA FOREST YOUTH ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, APALACHICOLA FOREST YOUTH ACADEMY reports that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 39% White, 9% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the income-and-resources front, APALACHICOLA FOREST YOUTH ACADEMY logs 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Liberty County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,671, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. APALACHICOLA FOREST YOUTH ACADEMY is one of 9 public schools in Liberty County (combined enrollment of about 1,264 students).

LIBERTY WILDERNESS CROSSROADS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 27 students in 2018 compared to 23 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 78% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 3.9:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 in 2025.

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