R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in LAKELAND, Florida, one of the schools within POLK, serveing 662 students in grades pre-K through 5.

POLK comprises 163 schools with combined enrollment of 116,552 students; R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 38% White, 17% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Polk County's rate of about 65%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.2%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -5.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Polk County put median household earnings sit near $65,978, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Polk County's 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

DR. NE ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 41.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 647 (now 662). White enrollment moved from 51% to 38% across the same window.

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