PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As an intimate elementary campus in PORT ST JOE, Florida, PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL hosts 428 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by GULF. That puts it 29% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

GULF runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,901 students. PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 13% Black, 9% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Gulf County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,179 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Gulf County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,901 students), of which PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PORT ST. JOE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 49.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. PORT ST. JOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 28% since 2018, when it stood at 595 (now 428). White enrollment moved from 73% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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