HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in SAINT JOHNS, Florida, overseen by ST. JOHNS, enrolls 669 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 53 schools operated by ST. JOHNS, a district that hosts 52,383 students overall.

On demographics, HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 45 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. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.3%, the actual is 80.4%, a residual of +6.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for St. Johns County indicate median household income runs about $109,839, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, St. Johns County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,895 students), of which HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SWITZERLAND POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 79.7%.

HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 764 students in 2018 compared to 669 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 68% across the same window.

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