CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY

CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY is an elementary-level community of compact scale in GAINESVILLE, Florida, overseen by ALACHUA, educateing 501 students in grades K through 5.

Within ALACHUA, which oversees 60 schools and 28,255 students, CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY shows that the most-represented group is White (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 25% Black, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Alachua County's rate of about 48%.

After controlling for student poverty, CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 62.3%; CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY posts 46.4%, -15.8 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Alachua County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,949 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Alachua County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,618 students), CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

ALACHUA ESCHOOL (VIRTUAL FRANCHISE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER ELEMENTARY at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 57.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 26%: 680 students in 2018 compared to 501 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 25% to 33%.

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