JAMES E PLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

JAMES E PLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in NICEVILLE, Florida, run under OKALOOSA, serveing 762 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 26% larger than typical.

Within OKALOOSA, which oversees 49 schools and 32,120 students, JAMES E PLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, JAMES E PLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Okaloosa County (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JAMES E PLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.3%, the actual is 78.0%, a residual of +10.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Okaloosa County put the typical household earns roughly $81,998 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Okaloosa County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,120 students), of which JAMES E PLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: NICEVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JAMES E PLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 77.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 797 students in 2018 compared to 762 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 78% to 73% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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