GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY

GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in PENSACOLA, Florida, operated by ESCAMBIA, works with 489 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within ESCAMBIA, which oversees 66 schools and 36,795 students, GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY shows that 71% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 12% Hispanic, 11% White, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the resource side, GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Escambia County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.1%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of -9.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Escambia County put median household income runs about $67,500, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY is one of 71 public schools in Escambia County (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students).

The closest other public school is OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.2%.

GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY's enrollment has declined 26% since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 489). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 77% to 71%. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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