MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a small elementary school in GAINESVILLE, Florida, MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 312 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within ALACHUA. That puts it 48% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within ALACHUA, which oversees 60 schools and 28,255 students, MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Alachua County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 36.2%; MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 18.8%, -17.4 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Alachua County indicate median household income runs about $61,949, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 68 public schools in Alachua County (combined enrollment of about 29,618 students).

The closest other public school is THE ONE ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE PROJECT, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 44.1%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 10%: 284 students in 2018 compared to 312 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 89% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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