HILAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HILAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in PANAMA CITY, Florida, run under BAY, with 684 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

BAY runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 27,494 students. HILAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, HILAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Hispanic, 17% Black, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, HILAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Bay County's rate of about 43%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HILAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 41.6%, a residual of -13.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bay County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,533 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Bay County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students), HILAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HILAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HILAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 776 students in 2018 compared to 684 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 7% to 21% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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