HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a reasonably sized elementary campus in SUMMERFIELD, Florida, overseen by MARION, hosts 833 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% above the state mean of about 604.

Within MARION, which oversees 62 schools and 46,349 students, HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marion County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Marion County reports that median household income runs about $61,010, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 68 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 46,349 students).

The closest other public school is LAKE WEIR MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 1.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has held roughly steady, going from 829 students in 2018 to 833 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 60% to 49%. Class-load math has grew: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.