POINCIANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

POINCIANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in KEY WEST, Florida, run under MONROE, caters to 556 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within MONROE, which oversees 22 schools and 8,928 students, POINCIANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, POINCIANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Black (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 37% Hispanic, 18% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 7% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting POINCIANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, POINCIANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 51.8%, a residual of +3.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Monroe County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $87,738 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. POINCIANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 25 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 8,928 students).

LOWER KEYS ACADEMIC CONNECTIONS FOR EXCELLENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, POINCIANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. POINCIANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 596 (now 556). Black enrollment moved from 19% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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