COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in OCALA, Florida, COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community, part of MARION. It teaches 873 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 45% above that benchmark.

Within MARION, which oversees 62 schools and 46,349 students, COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 23% Black, 19% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 17% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Marion County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 38.2%, a residual of -6.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Marion County) reports that median household income runs about $61,010, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Marion County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,349 students), of which COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

DR N H JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 65.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has grew 6%, going from 823 students in 2018 to 873 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 today.

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