OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in PENSACOLA, Florida, operated by ESCAMBIA, caters to 527 students in grades pre-K through 5.

ESCAMBIA runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 36,795 students. OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 42% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 41% Hispanic, 10% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Escambia County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 57% of students at OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify 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, OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 52.7%; OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 31.0%, -21.7 points below that line.

In the broader community, Escambia County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,500, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 71 public schools in Escambia County (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students).

Nearest neighbor: C. A. WEIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 510 students in 2018 compared to 527 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 11% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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