ARCHER ELEMENTARY

ARCHER ELEMENTARY, a compact elementary-level community in ARCHER, Florida, part of ALACHUA, educates 413 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so ARCHER ELEMENTARY sits 32% below that benchmark.

ARCHER ELEMENTARY is one of 60 schools operated by ALACHUA, a district that hosts 28,255 students overall.

On demographics, ARCHER ELEMENTARY shows that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ARCHER ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.8%, the actual is 57.4%, a residual of +1.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Alachua County) shows that median household earnings sit near $61,949, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Alachua County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,618 students), of which ARCHER ELEMENTARY is one.

MYRA TERWILLIGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, ARCHER ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARCHER ELEMENTARY has declined 24%, going from 542 students in 2018 to 413 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 58% to 51%.

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