BROWNING-PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 100 BEAR BLVD, in SAN MATEO, Florida, BROWNING-PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary campus that works with 679 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within PUTNAM.

Across the 18 schools in PUTNAM (10,082 students total), BROWNING-PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, BROWNING-PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder looks like 19% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, BROWNING-PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.0:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BROWNING-PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -10.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Putnam County shows median household income runs about $47,934, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. BROWNING-PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 19 public schools in Putnam County (combined enrollment of about 10,082 students).

PUTNAM VIRTUAL FRANCHISE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.9 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BROWNING-PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BROWNING-PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 735 (now 679). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 20% to 16%.

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