TROUT CREEK ACADEMY

TROUT CREEK ACADEMY is a K-5 school of sprawling scale in ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, one of the schools within ST. JOHNS, hosting 1,156 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 91% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

ST. JOHNS runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 52,383 students. TROUT CREEK ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, TROUT CREEK ACADEMY logs that White students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting TROUT CREEK ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below St. Johns County's rate of about 21%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TROUT CREEK ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.2%, the actual is 81.0%, a residual of +5.8 points.

In the broader community, St. Johns County reports that median household earnings sit near $109,839, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across St. Johns County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,895 students), TROUT CREEK ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: TIMBERLIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, TROUT CREEK ACADEMY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 78.2%.

TROUT CREEK ACADEMY operates from a commuter-belt location.

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