BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a tight-knit K-5 school in BOWLING GREEN, Florida, BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 260 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by HARDEE. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 57% below that benchmark.

HARDEE runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,547 students. BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder breaks down as 32% White, 4% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hardee County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.7%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of +8.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hardee County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,489 per year, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Across Hardee County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,547 students), BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

HARDEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 32%, going from 380 students in 2018 to 260 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 77% to 62%.

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