Enrollment
344
Elementary
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ESCAMBIA·NCES 120051000809
O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1250 E TEXAR DR, PENSACOLA, FL 32503 · (850) 595-6975 · Escambia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL344 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Florida public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
297 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 56 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 90% larger than its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
21.5%
FL avg 56.7% . -10.4pp since 2023
Math
28.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.5% | 28.4% |
| 2023-24 | 31.9% | 27.2% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (27.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 344 | 86.3% | 27.3% |
| MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENSACOLA | 363 | 83.7% | 39.8% |
| SMART POPE LIVINGSTON ELEMENTARY JACKSONVILLE | 405 | 85.2% | N/A |
| MAXIMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG | 339 | 81.7% | 38.8% |
| LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL TAMPA | 376 | 85.6% | 30.7% |
| LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GAINESVILLE | 268 | 84.7% | 34.7% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Escambia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.3% | #2,105 of 2,136 | #33 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.4% | #2,117 of 2,149 ▼ 9 | #32 of 34 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #2,140 of 2,149 ▼ 171 | #34 of 34 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 344 | #1,898 of 2,267 | #30 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #970 of 2,077 | #11 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.7% | #1,620 of 2,108 | #29 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.3% | #49 of 2,188 | #2 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.6% | #158 of 1,374 | #3 of 26 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
344
-109 (-24%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 643
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 12.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 344 | 22 | 15.6:1 | 86% (297) |
| 2023-24 | 288 | 23 | 12.5:1 | 91% (261) |
| 2022-23 | 302 | 21 | 14.4:1 | 91% (275) |
| 2020-21 | 453 | 35 | 12.9:1 | 85% (385) |
| 2017-18 | 503 | 40 | 12.6:1 | 88% (445) |
| 2015-16 | 428 | 32 | 13.4:1 | 90% (387) |
| 2010-11 | 288 | 23 | 12.5:1 | 79% (227) |
| 2000-01 | 561 | 33 | 17.0:1 | 95% (531) |
| 1990-91 | 643 | 36 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school in PENSACOLA, Florida, (ZIP code 32503). It reported 344 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Florida have about 604 students on average; enrollment here is 43% lower.
The ESCAMBIA system has 66 schools and 36,795 students.
Black students are 75% of those enrolled at O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The next largest groups are 10% White, 8% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. In Escambia County overall, about 21% of residents are Black. A diversity index of 42% means there is a 42% chance two randomly chosen students at O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
Based on 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a ratio of 15.6:1. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. Income data for the school show 86% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Escambia County, the average eligibility rate is 54%.
O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 5% of Florida public elementary schools.
O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 27.3% is 10.6 points below the 37.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school is in Escambia County, where median household income comes to about $67,500, roughly 30% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Escambia County counts 71 public schools with about 37,056 students.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE ANNEX is the nearest public school to O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 5th of 5 on proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as City: Small.
The school shrank from 453 students in 2020-21 to 344 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 12.9:1 in 2020-21 to 15.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Escambia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
325,923
Census ACS
Median income
$67,500
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
71
37,056 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in ESCAMBIA
- J. M. TATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,169 students
- WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,676 students
- ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,634 students
- PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,604 students
- WEST FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL/TECHNICALHigh · 1,322 students
- PENSACOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,221 students
Other schools in PENSACOLA
- WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,676 students
- ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,634 students
- PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,604 students
- WEST FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL/TECHNICALHigh · 1,322 students
- PENSACOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,221 students
- BEULAH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,070 students
Nearby schools
- COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE ANNEX0.9 mi · 78
- ESCAMBIA SCH. DIST. JAIL PROG.0.9 mi · 6
- HOSPITAL & HOMEBOUND0.9 mi · 21
- CORDOVA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 596
- PENSACOLA HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,221
- N. B. COOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 530
Frequently asked questions
About O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 344 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
What is the student diversity at O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 10% White, 7% Hispanic, 75% Black, 8% Two or more.
What district is O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of ESCAMBIA.
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