Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Chester Shell Elementary School, Hawthorne, FL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 282
- Teachers (FTE)
- 18.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.7
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 1.5 lower than the district figure of 17.2. The Florida average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 21633 SE 65th Ave, Hawthorne, FL 32640
- Phone
- (352)481-1901
- District
- Alachua County Public Schools
- County
- Alachua County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 120003000021
School meals
- Free lunch
- 203
- Reduced-price lunch
- 10
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 21375.5% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 203Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Alachua County Public Schools
- High Springs Community School 902 students
- Meadowbrook Elementary School 791 students
- Kimball Wiles Elementary School 741 students
- Littlewood Elementary School 714 students
- Hidden Oak Elementary School 694 students
- Lawton M. Chiles Elementary School 692 students
- Myra Terwilliger Elementary School 672 students
- Newberry Elementary School 651 students
- Idylwild Elementary School 627 students
- William S. Talbot Elementary School 573 students
- C. W. Norton Elementary School 540 students
- Carolyn Beatrice Parker Elementary 501 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Hawthorne
- Ochwilla Elementary School Putnam County Public Schools
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.