JIM ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1051 N HIGHWAY 95A, in CANTONMENT, Florida, JIM ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary campus that instructs 648 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by ESCAMBIA.

Across the 66 schools in ESCAMBIA (36,795 students total), JIM ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, JIM ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 64% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 19% Black, 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, JIM ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, JIM ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.6%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of +6.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Escambia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,500 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. JIM ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 71 public schools in Escambia County (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students).

KINGSFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around JIM ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JIM ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JIM ALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has showed little movement, going from 638 students in 2018 to 648 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 64% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.