MOORE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MOORE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a compact elementary campus in MOORE HAVEN, Florida, overseen by GLADES, works with 344 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 43% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Across the 7 schools in GLADES (1,852 students total), MOORE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, MOORE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 30% White, 13% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

In terms of school funding signals, Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Glades County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MOORE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.0%; this one delivers 52.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Glades County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $45,870 per year, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Glades County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,852 students), MOORE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: GLADES VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MOORE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 370 students in 2018 compared to 344 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 41% to 53% over that span.

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