ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in WINTER HAVEN, Florida, ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized K-5 school, one of the schools within POLK. It enrolls 549 students across grades pre-K through 5.

POLK runs 163 schools in total, collectively educating 116,552 students. ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 36% Hispanic, 20% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

In terms of school funding signals, ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Polk County (around 65%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Polk County put the typical household earns roughly $65,978 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

CHAIN OF LAKES COLLEGIATE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.6%.

ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 31%, going from 792 students in 2018 to 549 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 24% to 36% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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