WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 300 HUEY ST, in WILDWOOD, Florida, WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary campus that hosts 678 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by SUMTER.

Across the 12 schools in SUMTER (10,013 students total), WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black at 34%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 34% White, 22% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sumter County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 57.6%; actual is 73.3%, +15.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sumter County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,508 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Sumter County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,013 students), WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WILDWOOD MIDDLE/ HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 11%, going from 759 students in 2018 to 678 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 42% to 34% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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