WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small elementary-level community in YOUNGSTOWN, Florida, overseen by BAY, enrolls 423 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% below the state mean of about 604.

WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 47 schools operated by BAY, a district that works with 27,494 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 70% of students at WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bay County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of +6.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Bay County shows median household income runs about $73,533, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 50 public schools in Bay County (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students).

MERRITT BROWN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 11.2 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 62.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 487 students in 2018 compared to 423 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.