Original Research by School Decision on K-8 School Pp
K-8 School PP, located on Orange Street in St. Augustine, Florida, is listed in federal education records as a closed regular public school. Its recorded grade band covers only a single grade designation, and no enrollment, demographic, academic performance, or program data is available in the record. Because the school is no longer operating, a family cannot enroll a child there, and any historical figures would describe a facility that no longer exists in its prior form. Families seeking a school in this area would need to contact St. Johns County School District directly to understand what school now serves this address or zone.
What the record does support is a picture of the surrounding community and district that a family relocating to St. Augustine would still find relevant.
St. Augustine itself is a coastal city with a strong tourism and historic-preservation identity. Publicly reported sources describe it as having a notably older median population, a high share of college-educated adults, and an unusual concentration of artists and creative workers relative to most American cities. The compact historic downtown, built on a colonial street grid with brick-paved and pedestrian-only stretches, is genuinely walkable in a way rare in Florida. Life beyond the tourist core includes shopping corridors, suburban subdivisions, beach-adjacent neighborhoods, and civic anchors like the St. Johns County Public Library System with multiple branches serving the area. The county is among the fastest-growing in the United States, and St. Augustine itself has seen steady population growth alongside new multifamily housing development. A full redesign of King Street downtown was publicly approved in late 2024 and is underway.
For families who do own or buy in this area, the housing market context matters. Home values in this zip code are roughly in line with state and national medians, though they have edged slightly downward year over year while rents have held nearly flat. The estimated monthly carrying cost on a typical home here, at current mortgage rates, runs meaningfully above the local rent option, a gap worth factoring into a housing decision.
On the district side, St. Johns County School District passed two referendums in November 2024 that directly affect homeowners. Voters approved a new property tax dedicated to school operations, with the majority of those funds directed toward teacher and support-staff salaries and benefits and the remainder toward school safety, nurses, mental-health counselors, and programs in science, art, music, and athletics. Separately, voters renewed a half-cent capital sales surtax through the end of the decade, continuing funding for new construction, expansions, and safety upgrades in a district that has been building steadily to keep pace with rapid enrollment growth. Both measures passed with strong support and represent ongoing fiscal commitments a buyer in St. Johns County would carry.
Because K-8 School PP is closed, no assessment data, graduation outcomes, civil-rights indicators, staffing ratios, or course offerings are available or applicable here. A parent researching current schools in St. Augustine should work directly with the district to identify the school now serving any given address.
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