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What's one thing PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
428
Elementary
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GULF·NCES 120069000867
PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2201 LONG AVE, PORT ST JOE, FL 32456 · (850) 227-1221 · Gulf County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL428 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% of Florida public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
184 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
50.0%
FL avg 56.7% . -3.1pp since 2023
Math
57.6%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 57.6% |
| 2023-24 | 53.1% | 58.7% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (55.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 428 | 43.0% | 55.5% |
| KETTERLINUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST AUGUSTINE | 405 | 44.9% | 70.7% |
| BRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CENTURY | 472 | 43.9% | 54.8% |
| AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MERRITT ISLAND | 416 | 45.0% | 65.2% |
| HELLEN CARO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENSACOLA | 517 | 43.5% | 67.0% |
| SAN JOSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DUNEDIN | 336 | 40.2% | 75.1% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #1,068 of 2,136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #1,210 of 2,149 ▼ 219 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,299 of 2,149 ▼ 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 428 | #1,686 of 2,267 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #88 of 2,077 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.2% | #1,362 of 2,108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.0% | #1,499 of 2,188 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.1% | #247 of 1,374 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
428
-68 (-14%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 561
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 16.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 428 | 34 | 12.6:1 | 43% (184) |
| 2023-24 | 512 | 37 | 13.8:1 | 45% (229) |
| 2022-23 | 534 | 36 | 14.8:1 | 44% (236) |
| 2020-21 | 496 | 31 | 16.0:1 | 48% (238) |
| 2017-18 | 595 | 35 | 17.0:1 | 62% (369) |
| 2015-16 | 568 | 31 | 18.3:1 | 64% (361) |
| 2010-11 | 513 | 33 | 15.6:1 | 55% (280) |
| 2000-01 | 539 | 30 | 18.0:1 | 60% (325) |
| 1990-91 | 561 | 33 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school in Florida, with an address in PORT ST JOE. Total enrollment is 428 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
GULF oversees PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and 4 other schools, with 1,901 students in total.
White students are 68% of those enrolled at PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 13% Black, 9% multiracial, and 9% Hispanic. Census estimates put the White share of Gulf County's population at about 78%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
Its staff includes 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.6 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Florida, 17.5:1, is higher. PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 43%. Public schools in Gulf County average a similar 45%.
On the allk12 Grade, PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 40% of Florida public elementary schools.
In Florida, PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 55.5% actual against a predicted 59.6%.
For the population of Gulf County, the median household earns about $61,179 a year, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Across Gulf County, 7 public schools serve about 1,901 students.
PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's nearest public school is PORT ST. JOE HIGH SCHOOL (about 0.4 miles). In all, 2 other public schools sit within five miles of PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Of the 5 nearby schools with scores, including this one, PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 2nd on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Distant, or in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment was 428 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 496. The ratio was 16.0:1 in 2020-21 and 12.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Gulf County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
15,131
Census ACS
Median income
$61,179
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
7
1,901 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GULF
- PORT ST. JOE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 575 students
- WEWAHITCHKA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 448 students
- WEWAHITCHKA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 426 students
- PREK ESECombined · 24 students
- GULF APEXHigh
- GULF VIRTUAL FRANCHISEHigh
Other schools in PORT ST JOE
- PORT ST. JOE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 575 students
- PREK ESECombined · 24 students
- GULF APEXHigh
- GULF VIRTUAL FRANCHISEHigh
Nearby schools
- PORT ST. JOE HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 575
- PREK ESE0.4 mi · 24
- APALACHICOLA BAY CHARTER SCHOOL18.7 mi · 356
- WEWAHITCHKA HIGH SCHOOL22.3 mi · 426
- WEWAHITCHKA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL22.3 mi · 448
- FRANKLIN VIRTUAL FRANCHISE-PAEC FLVS25.2 mi · 15
Frequently asked questions
About PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 428 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.6:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 68% White, 9% Hispanic, 13% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by GULF.
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