PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of close-knit scale in LAKE CITY, Florida, part of COLUMBIA, educateing 448 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

Within COLUMBIA, which oversees 16 schools and 9,815 students, PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 68%; the rest consists of 14% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.4%; this one delivers 65.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Columbia County) shows that median household income runs about $59,205, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Columbia County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,815 students), of which PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 2.8 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 6%, going from 475 students in 2018 to 448 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 68% across the same window.

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