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Enrollment
720
Elementary
DISTRICT 625 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARION·NCES 120126003202
GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
207 MIDWAY RD, OCALA, FL 34472 · (352) 671-4845 · Marion County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL720 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
493 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 53 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 116 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 123 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 116 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (108).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
44.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.6pp since 2023
Math
46.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.5% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.9% | 46.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 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 GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 720 | 68.5% | 45.1% |
| SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY WINTER HAVEN | 689 | 68.8% | 46.0% |
| WILLIAM H. BASHAW ELEMENTARY BRADENTON | 720 | 67.9% | 44.8% |
| LEGACY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 753 | 71.0% | 32.8% |
| ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FERN PARK | 637 | 71.0% | 52.6% |
| RIVERS EDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT ST LUCIE | 778 | 67.2% | 64.2% |
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 GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Marion County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #1,576 of 2,136 | #15 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,724 of 2,149 ▼ 181 | #17 of 32 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #1,576 of 2,149 ▲ 26 | #14 of 32 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 720 | #655 of 2,267 | #13 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #1,115 of 2,077 | #15 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #165 of 2,108 | #7 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.5% | #522 of 2,188 | #11 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #1,260 of 1,374 | #9 of 12 |
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
720
+78 (+12%) vs 2020
+5% since 2000-01, when it was 687
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 720 | 45 | 16.0:1 | 68% (493) |
| 2023-24 | 746 | 40 | 18.6:1 | 66% (492) |
| 2022-23 | 736 | 35 | 21.0:1 | 67% (491) |
| 2020-21 | 642 | 37 | 17.4:1 | 67% (427) |
| 2017-18 | 740 | 43 | 17.2:1 | 70% (517) |
| 2015-16 | 740 | 47 | 15.7:1 | 69% (510) |
| 2010-11 | 911 | 60 | 15.2:1 | 74% (671) |
| 2000-01 | 687 | 39 | 17.6:1 | 73% (499) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in OCALA, Florida. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 720 students.
The 62 schools of MARION, including GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, enroll 46,349 students.
Of every 100 students at GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 40 are Hispanic, the largest group. The school is also 28% White, 23% Black, and 7% multiracial. That is higher than the 17% Hispanic share among all Marion County residents. A diversity index of 71% means there is a 71% chance two randomly chosen students at GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
A staff of 45 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 16.0:1. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 68%. The 57% average for public schools in Marion County is 11 points lower.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 46.9% for GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The school posts 45.1%, 1.7 points below the prediction.
In Marion County, home to about 400,078 people, the median household earns about $61,010 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Marion County number 68, with about 46,349 students.
Of the public schools around it, GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to MARION CHARTER SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 4th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels Suburb: Mid-size.
In 2020-21, GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 642 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 720. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 17.4:1 to 16.0:1.
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Marion County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
400,078
Census ACS
Median income
$61,010
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
46,349 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MARION
- WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,022 students
- FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,387 students
- BELLEVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,904 students
- VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,684 students
- BELLEVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,600 students
- DUNNELLON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,562 students
Other schools in OCALA
- WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,022 students
- FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,387 students
- VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,684 students
- LAKE WEIR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,447 students
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,402 students
- HORIZON ACADEMY AT MARION OAKSMiddle · 1,260 students
Other Greenway Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Greenway Elementary. GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Greenway Elementary SchoolBeaverton, OR · 272 students
Nearby schools
- MARION CHARTER SCHOOL0.9 mi · 228
- EMERALD SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 696
- FOREST HIGH SCHOOL3.4 mi · 2,387
- LAKE WEIR HIGH SCHOOL3.7 mi · 1,447
- LEGACY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.0 mi · 753
- MAPLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 819
Frequently asked questions
About GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 720 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1.
What is the student diversity at GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 28% White, 40% Hispanic, 23% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MARION.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.