HUTCHISON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in PANAMA CITY BEACH, Florida, HUTCHISON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary-level community, overseen by BAY. It teaches 573 students across grades K through 5.

Within BAY, which oversees 47 schools and 27,494 students, HUTCHISON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, HUTCHISON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Black, 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at HUTCHISON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HUTCHISON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.5%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bay County) records that median household earnings sit near $73,533, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. HUTCHISON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 50 public schools in Bay County (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students).

Nearest neighbor: SURFSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around HUTCHISON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HUTCHISON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 62.4%.

HUTCHISON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 589 students in 2018 compared to 573 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 69% to 53% over that span.

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