WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary-level community in OCALA, Florida, operated by MARION. The school serves 502 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within MARION, which oversees 62 schools and 46,349 students, WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Black (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 26% White, 25% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Marion County's rate of about 57%.

After controlling for student poverty, WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,010 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Marion County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,349 students), of which WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is MARION COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMY, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 629 students in 2018 compared to 502 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 38% to 26%.

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