MARION OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a heavily attended K-5 school in OCALA, Florida, MARION OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 1,196 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within MARION. Enrollment runs roughly 98% larger than the state mean of about 604.

MARION OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 62 schools operated by MARION, a district that caters to 46,349 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MARION OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 27% White, 17% Black, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MARION OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 66% of students at MARION OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARION OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Marion County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,010 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MARION OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 68 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 46,349 students).

SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARION OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 50.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARION OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has climbed 37%, going from 876 students in 2018 to 1,196 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 37% to 27%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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