OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in OCALA, Florida, overseen by MARION, with 631 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

MARION comprises 62 schools with combined enrollment of 46,349 students; OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 24% White, 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Marion County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.2%; this one delivers 28.3%.

Around the school, census data for Marion County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,010 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Marion County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,349 students), of which OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 621 (now 631). Black enrollment moved from 57% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.