GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a low-enrollment K-5 school in GAINESVILLE, Florida, part of ALACHUA, serves 429 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 60 schools operated by ALACHUA, a district that caters to 28,255 students overall.

Looking at the student body, GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 26% Black, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Alachua County as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Alachua County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.0%; this one delivers 59.9%.

Around the school, Alachua County reports that median household income runs about $61,949, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Alachua County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,618 students), GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

C. W. NORTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 456 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 53% to 46%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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