PINE MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in PENSACOLA, Florida, PINE MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school, part of ESCAMBIA. It hosts 743 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% above the state mean of about 604.

ESCAMBIA comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 36,795 students; PINE MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, PINE MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 63%; the rest breaks down as 16% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Escambia County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PINE MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.9%, the actual is 68.1%, a residual of +8.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Escambia County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $67,500 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Escambia County runs 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students), of which PINE MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is L. D. MCARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINE MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PINE MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 959 students in 2018 compared to 743 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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