HEAD START PROGRAM

Set in QUINCY, Florida, HEAD START PROGRAM is a micro-enrollment elementary-level community, run under GADSDEN. It enrolls 34 students across grade pre-K. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so HEAD START PROGRAM sits 94% leaner than that benchmark.

Within GADSDEN, which oversees 16 schools and 4,633 students, HEAD START PROGRAM is one campus in the system.

Demographically, HEAD START PROGRAM shows that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 53% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, HEAD START PROGRAM has 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Gadsden County's rate of about 85%.

Around the school, census data for Gadsden County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,801 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 22%. In all, Gadsden County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,633 students), of which HEAD START PROGRAM is one.

GADSDEN VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HEAD START PROGRAM.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 33%: 51 students in 2018 compared to 34 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 90% to 97% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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