HAMILTON COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HAMILTON COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in JASPER, Florida, one of the schools within HAMILTON. The school instructs 780 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within HAMILTON, which oversees 5 schools and 1,618 students, HAMILTON COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, HAMILTON COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 33% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 33% Black, 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Hamilton County as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, HAMILTON COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, HAMILTON COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.6%, the actual is 40.6%, a residual of +1.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hamilton County indicate median household income runs about $50,144, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hamilton County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,618 students), of which HAMILTON COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

HAMILTON VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HAMILTON COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 48.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 981 students in 2018 compared to 780 in 2025.

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