📍 820 Se Putnam St, Lake City, Columbia County, 32025
Melrose Park Elementary School is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Lake City, Columbia County. The school has 398 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Andrea Cox. It is part of the Columbia school district. It serves grades Pre-K–5 in a small-town setting. The school employs 25.0 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 15.9:1. 32% of students are proficient in reading. 27% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi.
Melrose Park Elementary School enrolls 398 students across grades Pre-K–5. The student body is 53% male and 47% female. A teaching staff of 25.0 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 15.9:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 44% Black or African American, 33% White and 12% Two or more races.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Black or African American | 176 | 44% |
| White | 130 | 33% |
| Two or more races | 47 | 12% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 43 | 11% |
| Asian | 2 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
335 of the school's 398 students (84%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 328 qualify for free lunch and 7 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Melrose Park Elementary School is located in a small-town setting (NCES locale: Town, Distant). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district FL-30, state senate district 5, state house district 10.
Melrose Park Elementary School is one of 19 schools in COLUMBIA, based in LAKE CITY, Florida. The district serves 9,508 students district-wide and employs 548 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 398 students, Melrose Park Elementary School is smaller than the district average of about 500 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: Town - Distant
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