FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in SEBRING, Florida, overseen by HIGHLANDS, with 576 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

HIGHLANDS runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 12,040 students. FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 35% White, 20% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Highlands County as a whole is about 22% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Highlands County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 46.7%, a residual of +5.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Highlands County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,897 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Highlands County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,040 students), of which FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SEBRING HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has climbed 9% since 2018, when it stood at 530 (now 576).

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