BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in BELLEVIEW, Florida, overseen by MARION. Current enrollment sits at 681 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

MARION runs 62 schools in total, collectively educating 46,349 students. BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 29% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 43.7%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Marion County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $61,010 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,349 students), BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BELLEVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 684 students in 2018 to 681 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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