PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an average-sized primary school in DADE CITY, Florida, part of PASCO, hosts 639 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 105 schools in PASCO (86,873 students total), PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 27% White, 15% Black, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Pasco County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.9%; this one delivers 35.7%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Pasco County indicate median household earnings sit near $70,492, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Pasco County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students), PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PASCO MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked up 4%, going from 613 students in 2018 to 639 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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