Enrollment
121
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GADSDEN·NCES 120060000853
GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
200 PROVIDENCE RD, QUINCY, FL 32351 · (850) 627-7557 · Gadsden County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL121 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
11 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
95 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 9 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 15 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 15 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 12 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 12 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 9 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 13 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 12 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 11 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 13 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (15) is 15% larger than its 8th grade class (13).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
69.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.3pp since 2023
Math
88.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.1% | 88.6% |
| 2023-24 | 59.8% | 80.2% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+29.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL's state test result (71.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL this school | 121 | 78.5% | 71.6% |
| EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY AT DUVAL GAINESVILLE | 117 | 79.5% | N/A |
| MYRTLE GROVE ELEMENTARY MIAMI GARDENS | 154 | 79.2% | 44.3% |
| RAINBOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OPA LOCKA | 172 | 77.9% | 36.5% |
| GRAHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 162 | 82.7% | 35.8% |
| POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 169 | 73.4% | 23.6% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Gadsden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.6% | #395 of 2,136 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.6% | #71 of 2,149 ▲ 149 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #473 of 2,149 ▲ 246 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 121 | #2,177 of 2,267 | #6 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.5% | #187 of 2,188 | #6 of 6 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
121
-36 (-23%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 206
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 121 | 11 | 11.0:1 | 79% (95) |
| 2023-24 | 130 | 12 | 10.8:1 | 78% (102) |
| 2022-23 | 128 | 12 | 10.7:1 | 77% (99) |
| 2020-21 | 157 | 12 | 13.1:1 | 79% (124) |
| 2017-18 | 161 | 14 | 11.5:1 | 61% (98) |
| 2015-16 | 149 | 15 | 9.9:1 | 54% (80) |
| 2010-11 | 145 | 9 | 16.1:1 | 61% (88) |
| 2000-01 | 117 | 11 | 10.6:1 | 69% (81) |
| 1990-91 | 206 | 15 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL.
About GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is an elementary school in QUINCY, Florida, according to federal school records. It educates 121 students in pre-K through 8. The typical figure for elementary schools in Florida is about 604 students.
The 16 schools in GADSDEN enroll 4,633 students altogether, GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL among them.
GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL's enrollment is 76% Black. Other groups include 17% Hispanic and 6% White. By comparison, Gadsden County residents are about 53% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 39%.
Its 11 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 11.0:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, higher than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 79% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
allk12 grades GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL would score about 41.8%. It scores 71.6%, a top-10% result among Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is located in Gadsden County, where median household income is about $48,801, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and about 22% of people live in poverty. GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 17 public schools in Gadsden County, which together enroll about 4,633 students.
The closest public school to GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is WEST GADSDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles number 2. The school's 71.6% average proficiency ranks 1st among 6 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Distant. That means it sits in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
The number of students declined from 157 to 121 over 4 years. Students per teacher fell from 13.1 in 2020-21 to 11.0 in 2024-25.
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Gadsden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
43,710
Census ACS
Median income
$48,801
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
22%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
4,633 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in GADSDEN
- GADSDEN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,086 students
- GEORGE W. MUNROE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 575 students
- HAVANA MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 558 students
- CROSSROAD ACADEMYCombined · 555 students
- STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 453 students
- JAMES A. SHANKS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 434 students
Other schools in QUINCY
- GEORGE W. MUNROE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 575 students
- CROSSROAD ACADEMYCombined · 555 students
- STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 453 students
- JAMES A. SHANKS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 434 students
- WEST GADSDEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 314 students
- GREENSBORO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 264 students
Nearby schools
- WEST GADSDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 314
- GREENSBORO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 264
- GEORGE W. MUNROE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.1 mi · 575
- JAMES A. SHANKS MIDDLE SCHOOL8.5 mi · 434
- STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.2 mi · 453
- GADSDEN CENTRAL ACADEMY9.2 mi · 10
Frequently asked questions
About GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOLHow large is GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 121 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL serve?
GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL have?
GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL employs 11 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
At GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 6% White, 17% Hispanic, 76% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL public or private?
GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by GADSDEN.
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