NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier elementary-level community in WAUCHULA, Florida, run under HARDEE, caters to 516 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within HARDEE, which oversees 9 schools and 4,547 students, NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 28% White, 9% Black. The wider county runs roughly 42% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.6%; this one delivers 43.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hardee County) logs that median household earnings sit near $60,489, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. Across Hardee County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,547 students), NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HARDEE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE, roughly 0.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.3%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 546 students in 2018 compared to 516 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 68% to 60%.

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