DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY

DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY operates as an intimate primary school in BABSON PARK, Florida, run under POLK. Current enrollment sits at 453 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY sits 25% below that benchmark.

POLK comprises 163 schools with combined enrollment of 116,552 students; DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY reports that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 21% Hispanic, 7% Black. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Polk County's rate of about 65%.

With demographic context factored in, DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Polk County) logs that median household earnings sit near $65,978, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Polk County runs 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), of which DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY is one.

BOK ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 45.7%.

The school occupies a countryside site. DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY has declined 4%, going from 470 students in 2018 to 453 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share expanded from 66% to 70%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.