ENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the intimate elementary schools in PENSACOLA, Florida, part of ESCAMBIA, with 476 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

ESCAMBIA comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 36,795 students; ENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, ENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 38% Black, 16% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

In terms of school funding signals, ENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Escambia County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.6%; actual is 31.2%, a gap of -17.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Escambia County shows median household income runs about $67,500, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. ENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 71 public schools in Escambia County (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students).

Nearest neighbor: JACKIE HARRIS PREPARATORY ACADEMY, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 475 students in 2018 to 476 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 25% to 38%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.