C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in GAINESVILLE, Florida, C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary school, part of ALACHUA. It teaches 540 students across grades pre-K through 5.

ALACHUA comprises 60 schools with combined enrollment of 28,255 students; C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Black, 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 50.1%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Alachua County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,949, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 68 public schools in Alachua County (combined enrollment of about 29,618 students).

The closest other public school is GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.9%.

C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 16%, going from 644 students in 2018 to 540 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 10% to 18% over that span.

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