STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a small elementary-level community in GAINESVILLE, Florida, overseen by ALACHUA. Current enrollment sits at 403 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 604.

STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 60 schools operated by ALACHUA, a district that works with 28,255 students overall.

In terms of who attends, STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 22% White, 17% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 59% of students at STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Alachua County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Alachua County shows median household earnings sit near $61,949, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Alachua County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,618 students), of which STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is GAINESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. STEPHEN FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 519 (now 403). White enrollment moved from 31% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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