LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in PANAMA CITY, Florida, overseen by BAY, teacheing 543 students in grades pre-K through 5.

LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 47 schools operated by BAY, a district that works with 27,494 students overall.

On the student-mix side, LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 29% Black, 26% White, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Bay County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bay County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bay County indicate median household income runs about $73,533, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Bay County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students), of which LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL AT FSU PC is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 71.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 13%: 480 students in 2018 compared to 543 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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