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TAYLOR COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About TAYLOR COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As an average-sized elementary school in PERRY, Florida, TAYLOR COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL hosts 545 students from grades 3 through 5, part of TAYLOR.
TAYLOR comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,524 students; TAYLOR COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
On demographics, TAYLOR COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 27% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 67% of students at TAYLOR COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, TAYLOR COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of -4.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Taylor County indicate median household earnings sit near $49,073, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. TAYLOR COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 9 public schools in Taylor County (combined enrollment of about 2,524 students).
The closest other public school is TAYLOR COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TAYLOR COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TAYLOR COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 25%, going from 726 students in 2018 to 545 in 2025.
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