GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of mid-tier scale in GULF BREEZE, Florida, part of SANTA ROSA, enrolling 865 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 43% larger than that benchmark.

SANTA ROSA runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 29,643 students. GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. Compared to Santa Rosa County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Santa Rosa County (around 44%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 69.8%; GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 84.7%, +14.9 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Santa Rosa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $91,922 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 42 public schools in Santa Rosa County (combined enrollment of about 29,382 students).

GULF BREEZE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 67.9%.

GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has climbed 15% since 2018, when it stood at 755 (now 865).

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