📍 35 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Quincy, Gadsden County, 32351
Head Start Program is a State/Public serving prekindergarten age pupils, located in Quincy, Gadsden County. The school has 32 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Gadsden school district. It serves grades Pre-K in a rural setting. The school employs 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 32.0:1.
Head Start Program enrolls 32 students across grades Pre-K. The student body is 50% male and 50% female. A teaching staff of 1 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 32.0:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 84% Black or African American, 9.4% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 6.3% Hispanic or Latino.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Black or African American | 27 | 84% |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 3 | 9.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 2 | 6.3% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
24 of the school's 32 students (75%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 21 qualify for free lunch and 3 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Head Start Program is located in a rural setting (NCES locale: Rural, Fringe). 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-20, state senate district 3, state house district 8.
Head Start Program is one of 17 schools in GADSDEN, based in QUINCY, Florida. The district serves 4,633 students district-wide and employs 282 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 32 students, Head Start Program is smaller than the district average of about 273 students per school.
Setting: Rural - Fringe