NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida, run under CHARLOTTE, with 763 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 26% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within CHARLOTTE, which oversees 24 schools and 16,997 students, NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 27% Hispanic, 13% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Charlotte County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Charlotte County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 52.2%, a residual of +1.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Charlotte County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,952 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Charlotte County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,997 students), of which NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 52.1%.

NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 752 (now 763). Over the same period, the White share fell from 57% to 50%.

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