CHATTAHOOCHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CHATTAHOOCHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of one-room-style scale in CHATTAHOOCHEE, Florida, one of the schools within GADSDEN, educateing 159 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 74% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

GADSDEN runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 4,633 students. CHATTAHOOCHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, CHATTAHOOCHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%); the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 53% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at CHATTAHOOCHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, CHATTAHOOCHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 25.0%, a residual of -12.4 points.

Around the school, Gadsden County reports that the typical household earns roughly $48,801 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 22%. In all, Gadsden County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,633 students), of which CHATTAHOOCHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SNEADS HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 5.2 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHATTAHOOCHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CHATTAHOOCHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 8%, going from 173 students in 2018 to 159 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 1% to 6% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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