PATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in PANAMA CITY BEACH, Florida, part of BAY. Current enrollment sits at 589 students spanning grades K through 5.

BAY runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 27,494 students. PATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder looks like 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bay County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.5%, the actual is 72.4%, a residual of +7.9 points.

Around the school, 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 the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Bay County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students), of which PATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

A. GARY WALSINGHAM ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 19%, going from 728 students in 2018 to 589 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 81% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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