KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in PALATKA, Florida, one of the schools within PUTNAM, educateing 776 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 28% larger than typical.

Within PUTNAM, which oversees 18 schools and 10,082 students, KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 31% Black, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the resource side, On paper, KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.3%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Around the school, Putnam County reports that median household income runs about $47,934, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 19 public schools in Putnam County (combined enrollment of about 10,082 students).

Nearest neighbor: THE CHILDREN'S READING CENTER, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 32% since 2018, when it stood at 587 (now 776). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 41% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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