KEY LARGO SCHOOL

As an average-sized elementary school in KEY LARGO, Florida, KEY LARGO SCHOOL educates 690 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of MONROE.

MONROE comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 8,928 students; KEY LARGO SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KEY LARGO SCHOOL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%; the rest breaks down as 34% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Monroe County (around 47%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KEY LARGO SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 60.6%, a residual of +10.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Monroe County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,738 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monroe County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,928 students), of which KEY LARGO SCHOOL is one.

OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.5 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KEY LARGO SCHOOL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 58.8%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 856 students in 2018 compared to 690 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 34% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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