OSCAR PATTERSON ACADEMY

Located at 1025 REDWOOD AVE, in PANAMA CITY, Florida, OSCAR PATTERSON ACADEMY is a small elementary campus that teaches 394 students (grades pre-K through 4), one of the schools within BAY. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 35% leaner than typical.

Across the 47 schools in BAY (27,494 students total), OSCAR PATTERSON ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, OSCAR PATTERSON ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 24% White, 22% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Bay County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at OSCAR PATTERSON ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bay County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OSCAR PATTERSON ACADEMY is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.5%; OSCAR PATTERSON ACADEMY posts 27.0%, -18.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Bay County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,533 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. OSCAR PATTERSON ACADEMY is one of 50 public schools in Bay County (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students).

The closest other public school is ROSENWALD HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, OSCAR PATTERSON ACADEMY comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

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