Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Maude Saunders Elementary School, Defuniak Springs, FL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 554
- Teachers (FTE)
- 45.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.3
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 2.5 lower than the district figure of 14.8. 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
- 416 John Baldwin Rd, Defuniak Springs, FL 32433
- Phone
- (850)892-1260
- District
- Walton County Public Schools
- County
- Walton County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 120198002026
School meals
- Free lunch
- 418
- Reduced-price lunch
- 40
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 45882.7% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 371Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
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 Walton County Public Schools
- Freeport Elementary School 1,120 students
- Dune Lakes Elementary School 924 students
- Van R. Butler Elementary School 914 students
- West Defuniak Elementary School 704 students
- Mossy Head School 521 students
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.