FORT WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FORT WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized primary school in FORT WHITE, Florida, operated by COLUMBIA. The school hosts 644 students in grades pre-K through 5.

COLUMBIA comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 9,815 students; FORT WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, FORT WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 18% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, FORT WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FORT WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.6%; this one delivers 46.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Columbia County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,205, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Columbia County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,815 students), of which FORT WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

FORT WHITE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, FORT WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FORT WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 4%, going from 672 students in 2018 to 644 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 18% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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