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Enrollment
557
Elementary
DISTRICT 670 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OKALOOSA·NCES 120138001341
SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1350 JOE MARTIN CIR, SHALIMAR, FL 32579 · (850) 833-4339 · Okaloosa County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL557 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
383 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 24 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 108 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
51.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.5pp since 2023
Math
58.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.4% | 58.9% |
| 2023-24 | 53.9% | 58.8% |
% 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
53.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (53.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 557 | 68.8% | 53.3% |
| ORANGE CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE CITY | 594 | 66.8% | 42.7% |
| RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 592 | 66.0% | 59.2% |
| GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLIDAY | 625 | 69.0% | 44.4% |
| COTEE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 526 | 65.8% | 40.5% |
| KENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT WALTON BEACH | 471 | 67.1% | 54.0% |
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 SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Okaloosa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #1,164 of 2,136 | #16 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #1,148 of 2,149 ▼ 166 | #13 of 20 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #1,239 of 2,149 ▼ 263 | #16 of 20 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 557 | #1,194 of 2,267 | #13 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #1,549 of 2,077 | #16 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #581 of 2,108 | #8 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.8% | #506 of 2,188 | #7 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.4% | #648 of 1,374 | #5 of 16 |
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
557
-37 (-6%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 594
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 557 | 32 | 17.4:1 | 69% (383) |
| 2023-24 | 589 | 31 | 19.0:1 | 63% (374) |
| 2022-23 | 614 | 36 | 17.1:1 | 63% (388) |
| 2020-21 | 594 | 38 | 15.6:1 | 61% (361) |
| 2017-18 | 666 | 44 | 15.1:1 | 64% (423) |
| 2015-16 | 660 | 44 | 15.0:1 | 67% (441) |
| 2010-11 | 587 | 39 | 15.1:1 | 61% (357) |
| 2000-01 | 541 | 30 | 18.0:1 | 28% (150) |
| 1990-91 | 594 | 32 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In SHALIMAR, Florida, part of Okaloosa County, SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school. The school's enrollment of 557 students covers pre-K through 5.
A total of 49 schools make up OKALOOSA, with 32,120 students enrolled.
White students make up a majority at SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at 52%. The remaining students are 25% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 9% Black, and 2% Asian. Census figures show Okaloosa County is about 72% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The ratio of students to teachers is 17.4:1, with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That matches the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida fairly closely. Lunch subsidy eligibility at SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 69%. It compares with 50% for public schools in Okaloosa County.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is +6.5 points: 53.3% actual, 46.7% predicted.
Okaloosa County census figures show that the median household income is $81,998, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Okaloosa County is home to 51 public schools and about 32,120 public school students.
CLIFFORD MEIGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the public school closest to SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 8.
NCES assigns SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal data show a 6% enrollment decrease, from 594 in 2020-21 to 557 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 15.6:1 to 17.4:1.
Community posts for SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Okaloosa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
216,599
Census ACS
Median income
$81,998
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
32,120 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OKALOOSA
- CRESTVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,376 students
- NICEVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,036 students
- CHOCTAWHATCHEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,720 students
- FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,550 students
- BAKER SCHOOLCombined · 1,434 students
- DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,111 students
Other schools in SHALIMAR
- CLIFFORD MEIGS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 612 students
- LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 555 students
Nearby schools
- CLIFFORD MEIGS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 612
- LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 555
- KENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 471
- EGLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 436
- ELLIOTT POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 583
- CHOCTAWHATCHEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 1,720
Frequently asked questions
About SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 557 students in grades PK-05.
Is SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 17.4:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 52% White, 25% Hispanic, 9% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of OKALOOSA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.