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Pine Meadow Elementary School

Elementary school in Escambia County. Official Florida DOE accountability data, three-year grade history, and how to put it in context for your family. Use the PCS planning section below to prepare for a school transition.

A
2025-26 Florida DOE Grade
Pine Meadow Elementary School

A school plan for your PCS

Moving with a student: Pine Meadow Elementary School

Considering Pine Meadow Elementary School in Pensacola during a military move? Pair the school's academic information with a plan for admission, records and the first week.

Confirm enrollment in Escambia County

Use Escambia military-family enrollment guidance to check the attendance zone and ask about registration before arrival with orders. Confirm the route into this particular school: a neighborhood assignment, choice application, charter process or referral may involve different steps. Ask the liaison whether your transfer qualifies for Interstate Compact provisions and how to resolve a records or placement issue.

Carry the learning history forward

Request a portable copy of report cards, transcripts, current coursework and relevant learning plans before you leave. If your child has an IEP, 504 plan or other support arrangement, arrange a handoff with the receiving staff and ask what support will be available at the start. Use the Military OneSource school-transition guide to prepare for that conversation.

Match the handoff to the student

For Pine Meadow Elementary School, prioritize a teacher handoff about reading, math and daily routines. Ask how the school introduces a child arriving midyear and how parents receive progress updates. If your move involves kindergarten or first grade, have the registrar review age and prior-enrollment documentation. Confirm care availability and pickup authorization separately from school admission.

Connect school, home and duty station

For a Pensacola-area assignment, the Navy liaison connects families with schools and transition resources across service branches. Local contacts: NAS Pensacola School Liaison. Ask about youth introductions, deployment-related support and coordination with school staff. Availability of a particular service at Pine Meadow Elementary School should be confirmed directly.

Check the school-day route to your actual duty gate, dismissal time and backup pickup plan. The map estimates travel; it does not establish a bus route, attendance boundary or guaranteed commute.

Installation and enrollment resources checked . Confirm current requirements with the receiving school.

Get to know this school

A closer look at Pine Meadow Elementary School.

Pine Meadow Elementary publishes its Panther Tales family newsletter and provides office assistance with online registration. Its homepage also includes FOCUS, Canvas and Chromebook guidance for families.

The 2025–26 Florida DOE report classifies Pine Meadow Elementary School in the elementary category, as a district public school in Escambia County. Its accountability grade is A; it earned 71% of possible accountability points. The published grade sequence is A in 2023–24, A in 2024–25, and A in 2025–26.

Recorded locationPensacola, FL 3253410001 OMAR AVE
Directory grade spanPK–05NCES 2024-25; confirm current grades
School formatDistrict publicEscambia County
The school in perspectiveEditorial guide · 2026-09-06

Family onboarding includes help understanding the learning tools

Our interpretation of published school information, not a campus inspection or an additional official rating.

Pine Meadow's family information covers more than the first-day supply list. The school publishes Panther Tales newsletters, parent guides for Canvas and FOCUS, information about FAST reports and help with registration. For a family entering a new district, these resources can reduce the practical friction of getting connected. Knowing how to access information is a useful first step toward understanding what the child is learning and where a teacher sees a need for attention.

The next step is interpreting the information together. A portal entry or assessment report can identify something to discuss, but it cannot explain the child's full experience. Pine Meadow's public resources give parents a starting point for asking what a result means in classroom terms and what practice would help next. Families should also ask which updates are most useful to check regularly, so school communication becomes a manageable routine rather than a collection of separate accounts and documents.

Why it may fit

Families who appreciate written guidance and want help learning the district's parent tools may find Pine Meadow's registration and communication resources useful during a transition.

What to weigh

Online guides do not reveal the frequency or depth of individual feedback. Confirm how the classroom teacher discusses progress with a parent who needs more than a portal update.

A useful local detail

The Omar Avenue campus says office registration assistance is available. A new family can use that contact to confirm documents and parent access before the first school week.

One question worth asking

Bring a previous progress report and ask how Pine Meadow would explain comparable information, identify a classroom goal and share a practical update with your family.

Based on Pine Meadow newsletters, parent guides and registration help ↗ · Escambia district enrollment services ↗. Confirm current programs and availability with the school.

Programs, identity and school life

What makes this school distinctive.

Help with registration

The school says a computer is available in the main office and staff can assist families who need help completing online enrollment.

School source ↗

A regular family update

Panther Tales, parent-portal instructions and classroom-device resources give families several ways to follow school information and prepare for the year.

School source ↗
Understand the results

How the official results compare.

Its 71% overall points result is 13 percentage points above the 58% median among 33 other elementary schools in Escambia County with reported data.

What the results suggest.

A consistent state classification

Three consecutive A grades give you a consistent accountability classification across the published years. That is useful context, but it does not show whether every subject, classroom or student made the same progress.

A result worth noticing

Mathematics is 80%, compared with a 62% median for 33 other local schools in the same state category. That 18-point difference is the largest positive peer gap among the subject measures available here. Ask which learning opportunities sit behind it and how a new student would access them.

The next question after the scores

None of the 3 subject measures with enough local comparison data falls below its own peer median. The next question is how the school supports both students who need more time and students ready for additional challenge. These school-level percentages do not measure class size, belonging or your child's likely outcome.

Calculated from the dated state results below. Peer gaps compare each subject with the same subject at other schools, not one subject with another. Measures can cover different student groups. They do not establish why a result occurred or the quality of a particular teacher.

2025–26 reported components and other local elementary schools
MeasureThis schoolPeer medianDifference
Overall accountability points71%58% (33 schools)+13 pp
English language arts achievement72%62% (33 schools)+10 pp
Mathematics achievement80%62% (33 schools)+18 pp
Science achievement78%61% (33 schools)+17 pp

Swipe across the table to compare all columns.

Calculated from the linked Florida DOE release. The peer median is the middle school-level result, excludes this school, uses the same county and DOE school category, and ignores missing values. It is not weighted by enrollment. “pp” means percentage points. Graduation and acceleration measures use the cohorts specified by the state. Different measures describe different groups of students.

Use the results to identify questions, not to predict your child's experience. Programs, support, admissions and a campus visit can change which option fits your priorities. Read the state methodology ↗

Build a thoughtful shortlist

Other schools to consider.

These are the nearest other report pages in the same county and Florida DOE school category, using recorded campus locations. Their placement is based on location and school format, not a recommendation or enrollment entitlement.

Florida DOE 2025–26 · B1.0 miles between campuses

L. D. Mcarthur Elementary School ↗

Directory grades PK–05 · NCES 2024-25. Confirm current entry grades.

Compare L. D. Mcarthur Elementary School's course options, student support and daily schedule with this school. A different program or learning format may matter more to your child than the overall grade. Worth examining for families who want to understand both independent reading and responsible technology use in the elementary years. Ask how the school supports a reluctant reader as well as a child seeking more challenging material.

District school: confirm zoning, transfers and availability.
Florida DOE 2025–26 · A1.3 miles between campuses

R. C. Lipscomb Elementary School ↗

Directory grades PK–05 · NCES 2024-25. Confirm current entry grades.

Compare R. C. Lipscomb Elementary School's course options, student support and daily schedule with this school. A different program or learning format may matter more to your child than the overall grade. Families interested in student responsibility and clear learning goals may want to examine how Lipscomb helps children understand their own progress and practice skills at home.

District school: confirm zoning, transfers and availability.
Florida DOE 2025–26 · B2.5 miles between campuses

Lincoln Park Elementary School ↗

Directory grades PK–05 · NCES 2024-25. Confirm current entry grades.

Compare Lincoln Park Elementary School's course options, student support and daily schedule with this school. A different program or learning format may matter more to your child than the overall grade. Worth exploring for a child who benefits from clear demonstrations, opportunities to respond in different ways and a family that wants practical learning activities to share at home.

District school: confirm zoning, transfers and availability.

Campus-to-campus distances are straight-line estimates, not driving routes or distances from your home. Use the address search on the school map for a comparison from your own location. An alternative may be a better fit when its verified program, support or learning format aligns with your child's needs; a higher score in one measure does not settle that decision.

Before you make a decision

Enrollment and a useful school visit.

Verify school assignment with the district, then contact Pine Meadow's office if you need access to a computer or help with the online registration process. Enrollment resource ↗

  • How do teachers' classroom updates connect with Panther Tales and the parent portals?
  • Which Chromebook agreements and account setup steps should be completed before classes begin?

Sources for this guide

School-specific research checked 2026-09-06. Accountability data: 2025–26, retrieved 2026-08-24. Directory information is dated separately above.

Level
Elementary
District
Escambia County
Type
District public
Title I
Yes

Grade history

A
2025-26
A
2024-25
A
2023-24

Grades are the official school accountability grades published by the Florida Department of Education (retrieved 2026-08-24). A grade reflects points earned across achievement, learning gains, and other state-defined components.

2025-26 achievement components

Percent of possible points earned overall: 71%. Share of students classified economically disadvantaged: 77.2%.

English Language Arts achievement72%
Mathematics achievement80%
Science achievement78%

What should actually matter to parents

A letter grade is one data point, not a verdict. When families ask us how to evaluate a school, we point them to the same checklist every time:

  • Visit in person. Ten minutes in the front office and hallways tells you more about culture than any statistic.
  • Match the school to YOUR child. A school that is right for a self-directed kid may be wrong for one who needs structure, and the reverse. Programs (arts, STEM, athletics, IB/AP, ESE services) matter more than a one-letter summary.
  • Look at the trend, not one year. A school moving from C to B to A is a different story than one drifting the other way. We show three years on every school page for exactly this reason.
  • Read the components. Two schools with the same letter can have very different achievement profiles. The subject-area percentages show where a school is strong.
  • Confirm zoning before you buy. Attendance zones change. Verify the address you are considering with the district's current zoning tools, not a listing's claim.
  • Context matters. Research consistently shows family engagement outweighs most school-level differences. The percentages here measure the school; they do not predict your child.

Verify and dig deeper

The Costin Team does not rate, rank, or recommend schools. Grades shown are the official accountability grades published by the Florida Department of Education, provided as public information. The right school is a personal decision: visit campuses, meet teachers, and confirm current attendance zones directly with the district before making housing decisions based on schools.

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