OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier elementary campus in OLD TOWN, Florida, part of DIXIE, instructs 517 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

DIXIE runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,435 students. OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Dixie County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.7%; OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 71.1%, +25.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dixie County shows the typical household earns roughly $50,110 per year, about 11% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 9 public schools in Dixie County (combined enrollment of about 2,435 students).

Nearest neighbor: NATURE COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 6.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 581 (now 517).

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.