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Enrollment
517
Elementary
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ESCAMBIA·NCES 120051002746
HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
12551 MEADSON RD, PENSACOLA, FL 32506 · (850) 492-0531 · Escambia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL517 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Florida public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
225 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 2 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
66.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
71.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.5% | 71.4% |
| 2023-24 | 61.5% | 68.8% |
% 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
67.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (67.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 517 | 43.5% | 67.0% |
| AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MERRITT ISLAND | 416 | 45.0% | 65.2% |
| OSCEOLA MAGNET SCHOOL VERO BEACH | 524 | 42.7% | 77.0% |
| JENSEN BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JENSEN BEACH | 611 | 45.2% | 73.2% |
| A. GARY WALSINGHAM ACADEMY PANAMA CITY BEACH | 470 | 40.2% | 53.4% |
| SALLIE JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PUNTA GORDA | 634 | 46.4% | 69.6% |
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 HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Escambia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #563 of 2,136 | #7 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #595 of 2,149 ▼ 17 | #8 of 34 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #568 of 2,149 ▲ 94 | #7 of 34 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 517 | #1,350 of 2,267 | #17 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #447 of 2,077 | #4 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.7% | #1,004 of 2,108 | #18 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.5% | #1,485 of 2,188 | #28 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.2% | #79 of 1,374 | #2 of 26 |
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
517
-256 (-33%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 723
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 517 | 36 | 14.4:1 | 44% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 529 | 31 | 17.1:1 | 42% (222) |
| 2022-23 | 659 | 44.6 | 14.8:1 | 42% (277) |
| 2020-21 | 773 | 52 | 14.9:1 | 40% (308) |
| 2017-18 | 836 | 54 | 15.5:1 | 35% (292) |
| 2015-16 | 888 | 67 | 13.3:1 | 36% (317) |
| 2010-11 | 901 | 63 | 14.3:1 | 30% (270) |
| 2000-01 | 735 | 39 | 18.9:1 | 28% (206) |
| 1990-91 | 723 | 40 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This page covers HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school in PENSACOLA, Florida. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 517 students.
ESCAMBIA enrolls 36,795 students, and its 66 schools include HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Federal enrollment data show HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 62% White. Other groups make up 13% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 11% Black, and 2% Asian. In Escambia County overall, the White share is about 64%. A diversity index of 58% means there is a 58% chance two randomly chosen students at HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
For every teacher at HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are about 14.4 students; the school has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Florida, 17.5:1, is higher. There are 225 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 44% of enrollment. It compares with 54% for public schools in Escambia County.
Among Florida public elementary schools, HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 75%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 7.7 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (67.0% actual, 59.4% predicted).
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Escambia County show that median household income comes to about $67,500, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 30% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county's public schools total 71, with about 37,056 students.
JIM C. BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are 4 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 2nd out of 6 schools in its immediate area.
Under the NCES locale system, HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment decreased by 33% across 4 years, from 773 in 2020-21 to 517 in 2024-25.
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Escambia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
325,923
Census ACS
Median income
$67,500
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
71
37,056 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ESCAMBIA
- J. M. TATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,169 students
- WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,676 students
- ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,634 students
- PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,604 students
- WEST FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL/TECHNICALHigh · 1,322 students
- PENSACOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,221 students
Other schools in PENSACOLA
- WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,676 students
- ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,634 students
- PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,604 students
- WEST FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL/TECHNICALHigh · 1,322 students
- PENSACOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,221 students
- BEULAH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,070 students
Nearby schools
- JIM C. BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 948
- PLEASANT GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 678
- ACHIEVE ACADEMY AT MCMILLIAN4.1 mi · 260
- BLUE ANGELS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.1 mi · 663
- NAVY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.6 mi · 484
- ESCAMBIA BOYS' BASE8.1 mi · 27
Frequently asked questions
About HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 517 students in grades PK-05.
Is HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
How diverse is HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 62% White, 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by ESCAMBIA in Escambia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.