PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary school in PANAMA CITY, Florida, part of BAY, enrolls 321 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

BAY comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 27,494 students; PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 28% Black, 27% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Bay County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 55% of students at PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Bay County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.8%.

In the broader community, Bay County reports that median household earnings sit near $73,533, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Bay County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students), of which PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an urban location. PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 6% since 2018, when it stood at 302 (now 321). White enrollment moved from 62% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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