OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER

Set in KEY LARGO, Florida, OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER is a minimally staffed K-5 school, one of the schools within MONROE. It instructs 180 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER sits 70% smaller than that benchmark.

OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER is one of 22 schools operated by MONROE, a district that works with 8,928 students overall.

On the student-mix side, OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER reports that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Monroe County's rate of about 47%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.9%, the actual is 70.9%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Monroe County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $87,738 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Monroe County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,928 students), OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is KEY LARGO SCHOOL, roughly 4.5 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 56.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER has expanded 65%, going from 109 students in 2018 to 180 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 69% to 61% over that span.

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