ROCK CRUSHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 814 S ROCK CRUSHER RD, in HOMOSASSA, Florida, ROCK CRUSHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized K-5 school that instructs 664 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under CITRUS.

ROCK CRUSHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 26 schools operated by CITRUS, a district that serves 15,594 students overall.

Demographically, ROCK CRUSHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Citrus County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROCK CRUSHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.6%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Citrus County indicate median household earnings sit near $56,546, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Citrus County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,594 students), of which ROCK CRUSHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is CREST SCHOOL, roughly 2.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROCK CRUSHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.9%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROCK CRUSHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked up 3%, going from 642 students in 2018 to 664 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 83% to 78%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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