CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in BROOKSVILLE, Florida, CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary campus, run under HERNANDO. It serves 783 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

HERNANDO runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 23,734 students. CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hernando County (around 53%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.5%.

Across the wider county, Hernando County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,058 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hernando County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,734 students), of which CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

NATURE COAST TECHNICAL HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.1%.

CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 728 (now 783). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 67% to 60%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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