LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of roomy scale in DAVENPORT, Florida, one of the schools within POLK, hosting 1,179 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 95% larger than the state mean of about 604.

Across the 163 schools in POLK (116,552 students total), LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Black, 16% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Polk County (around 65%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 53.9%; this one comes in at 37.3%, -16.6 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Polk County reports that median household income runs about $65,978, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 172 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students).

DAVENPORT SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 62%: 728 students in 2018 compared to 1,179 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 29% to 16%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

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