CHUMUCKLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CHUMUCKLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a close-knit elementary school in JAY, Florida, operated by SANTA ROSA. Current enrollment sits at 371 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 39% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

SANTA ROSA comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 29,643 students; CHUMUCKLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, CHUMUCKLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder looks like 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Santa Rosa County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CHUMUCKLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting CHUMUCKLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CHUMUCKLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.9%, the actual is 69.6%, a residual of +13.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Santa Rosa County shows median household income runs about $91,922, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Santa Rosa County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,382 students), of which CHUMUCKLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is WALLACE LAKE K-8, roughly 6.9 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CHUMUCKLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 65.2%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CHUMUCKLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has rose 9%, going from 339 students in 2018 to 371 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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