AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a tight-knit elementary school in AVON PARK, Florida, overseen by HIGHLANDS. Current enrollment sits at 503 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within HIGHLANDS, which oversees 22 schools and 12,040 students, AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 25% White, 19% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.7%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of +4.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Highlands County indicate median household income runs about $54,897, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 24 public schools in Highlands County (combined enrollment of about 12,040 students).

AVON PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.6%.

AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 598 students in 2018 compared to 503 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.