JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a low-enrollment primary school in NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida, JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 513 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under PASCO.

Across the 105 schools in PASCO (86,873 students total), JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Pasco County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Pasco County's rate of about 37%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of +4.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pasco County put median household earnings sit near $70,492, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Pasco County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students), of which JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: GULF HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. JAMES M. MARLOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 527 (now 513). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 29% to 37%.

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