STARKEY RANCH K-8

Set in ODESSA, Florida, STARKEY RANCH K-8 is a large primary school, overseen by PASCO. It enrolls 1,927 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so STARKEY RANCH K-8 sits 219% bigger than that benchmark.

PASCO comprises 105 schools with combined enrollment of 86,873 students; STARKEY RANCH K-8 is among them.

Looking at the student body, STARKEY RANCH K-8 logs that 64% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, On paper, STARKEY RANCH K-8 has 121 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Pasco County (around 37%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), STARKEY RANCH K-8 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 77.9%.

Around the school, Pasco County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,492, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Pasco County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students), of which STARKEY RANCH K-8 is one.

Nearest neighbor: ODESSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, STARKEY RANCH K-8 comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 62.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

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