FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in BARTOW, Florida, operated by POLK, teacheing 585 students in grades pre-K through 5.

FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 163 schools operated by POLK, a district that teaches 116,552 students overall.

Looking at the student body, FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 47.5%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Polk County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $65,978 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 172 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students).

JEAN O'DELL LEARNING CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 50.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 585). Black enrollment moved from 25% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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