Public school / Primary / Charter
Palm Bay Elementary School
Panama City, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120009008597
- District
- Bay
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Palm Bay Elementary School is a public primary school in Panama City, Florida, run by Bay. It enrols 316 students — the 63360th largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
316
Teachers
15.0
Students per teacher
21.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
64.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Bay
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1A. Crawford Mosley High School1,901 students
- 2Deane Bozeman School1,619 students
- 3J.R. Arnold High School1,617 students
- 4Rutherford High School1,337 students
- 5Bay High School1,255 students
- 6Breakfast Point Academy1,058 students
- 7North Bay Haven Career Academy897 students
- 8Mowat Middle School868 students
- Enrollment−48.5%
- Teachers−60.5%
- Students per teacher+24.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+11.5%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory