INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY

INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY is an intimate elementary campus in VERO BEACH, Florida, one of the schools within INDIAN RIVER. The school instructs 444 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.

INDIAN RIVER runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 16,621 students. INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 30% White, 23% Black, 8% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Indian River County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 62.3%, a residual of +13.3 points.

Around the school, Indian River County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,491 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY is one of 28 public schools in Indian River County (combined enrollment of about 16,621 students).

The closest other public school is OSCEOLA MAGNET SCHOOL, roughly 1.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. INDIAN RIVER ACADEMY's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 487 (now 444). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 45% to 30%.

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