CHARLES E. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CHARLES E. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Florida, overseen by CLAY. Current enrollment sits at 564 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Within CLAY, which oversees 50 schools and 39,116 students, CHARLES E. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, CHARLES E. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Clay County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHARLES E. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Clay County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $87,820 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Clay County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,806 students), of which CHARLES E. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

GREEN COVE SPRINGS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around CHARLES E. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CHARLES E. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 72.6%.

CHARLES E. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. CHARLES E. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 721 (now 564). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 66% to 58%.

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