PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida, run under CHARLOTTE, instructing 557 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 24 schools operated by CHARLOTTE, a district that caters to 16,997 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 17% Black, 9% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 63% 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 Charlotte County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of -10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Charlotte County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,952 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Charlotte County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,997 students), of which PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is CHARLOTTE HARBOR SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 56.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 13%, going from 637 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 47% across the same window.

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