The top reported proficiency rate is 42% in Math. The lowest is 8% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on George W. Munroe Elementary School
George W. Munroe Elementary sits on West King Street in Quincy, the county seat of Gadsden County, serving children from pre-kindergarten through third grade. It is a regular public school in the Gadsden district, not a charter or magnet program.
The school enrolls a few hundred students across its grade band. The student body is predominantly Black and Hispanic, reflecting Quincy's character as the seat of Florida's only majority-Black county with a substantial and growing Latino community. The vast majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a strong indicator that this is a high-poverty school community. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided.
Because the school serves only pre-K through third grade, no graduation rate applies, and the science assessment data present in the file dates back nearly a decade and reflects a different assessment era, so it is not useful for drawing current conclusions. The more recent picture comes from Florida's FAST assessments administered to third graders. In reading, fewer than a third of third graders scored proficient, and math proficiency at that grade was somewhat stronger but still fell below half of students tested. These results are low relative to statewide norms and warrant a close conversation with the school about what supports are in place for foundational literacy and numeracy. A parent would reasonably ask how the school tracks early reading development and what intervention pathways exist for students who are not yet on grade level by the end of third grade. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether performance has been improving or declining.
No program offerings, staffing, attendance, or discipline data was provided, leaving gaps a parent would want to fill directly with the school or the Gadsden district office. The district brief search turned up no specific, confirmable recent changes to report.
Quincy itself is a small rural city, publicly reported as the county seat and focal point of Gadsden County, with deep roots in agriculture and a well-known early-20th-century investment history tied to Coca-Cola. The downtown historic district carries genuine character, roughly three dozen blocks of brick storefronts, antebellum homes, civic buildings, an arts center, and a community theater all within walking range of each other. Beyond that core, the city is strongly car-dependent. Median household income is low and the local poverty rate is high, conditions the school's free-lunch enrollment figures reflect directly. The public library offers adult literacy, ESL, computer literacy, and GED programs, which may be relevant for families of students who are English learners or who need community-level support alongside school.
Housing costs in the area run well below both the state and national medians, and values have ticked slightly downward recently. For families priced out of larger Florida metros, Quincy can represent a path to ownership that is otherwise inaccessible. Publicly reported projections point to modest population growth over the next several years, with new apartment construction underway and some retail expansion, though the city is also navigating pressure on aging infrastructure.
The comparison framework for this county has only one district, so no meaningful peer comparison among county districts is possible.
For a family weighing this school, the honest picture is one of a small pre-K through third grade campus embedded in a low-income community where foundational academic outcomes are currently below state averages. That does not tell the whole story of what happens inside a school, but it is the clearest quantitative signal available, and a parent would be well served to ask specific questions about early literacy intervention, teacher stability, and any improvement work underway before drawing final conclusions.
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