UMATILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

UMATILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in UMATILLA, Florida, run under LAKE, with 689 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 60 schools in LAKE (47,997 students total), UMATILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, UMATILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 21% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. Compared to Lake County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting UMATILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lake County (around 38%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, UMATILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.2%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of -3.9 points.

In the area at large, Lake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,161 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Lake County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,997 students), of which UMATILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

UMATILLA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around UMATILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), UMATILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. UMATILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 9% since 2018, when it stood at 635 (now 689). The White share of enrollment fell from 75% to 70% over that span.

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