NEWBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 25705 SW 15TH AVE, in NEWBERRY, Florida, NEWBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary school that caters to 651 students (grades pre-K through 4), overseen by ALACHUA.

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

Demographically, NEWBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 23% Black, 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Alachua County as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NEWBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.3%, the actual is 59.8%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Alachua County put median household income runs about $61,949, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Alachua County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,618 students), of which NEWBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

NEWBERRY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around NEWBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NEWBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 58.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 650 students in 2018 compared to 651 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 61% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the NEWBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.