ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier primary school in DUNNELLON, Florida, part of MARION. Current enrollment sits at 747 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 24% larger than typical.

MARION comprises 62 schools with combined enrollment of 46,349 students; ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 43% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 67% of students at ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Marion County (around 57%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Marion County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,010 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 68 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 46,349 students).

The closest other public school is DUNNELLON HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 5.5 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 753 students in 2018 to 747 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 50% to 43%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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