Enrollment
274
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159001760
ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
420 4TH ST, ALTURAS, FL 33820 · (863) 519-3917 · Polk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL274 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 74% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
208 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 17 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 23% larger than its 5th grade class (35).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
55.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
61.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.2% | 61.8% |
| 2023-24 | 54.6% | 57.9% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 43% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (60.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 274 | 75.9% | 60.0% |
| ALTOONA SCHOOL ALTOONA | 248 | 82.3% | 66.6% |
| FIVE POINTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE CITY | 349 | 75.6% | 40.4% |
| SOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OKEECHOBEE | 475 | 70.5% | 52.0% |
| GLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VERO BEACH | 390 | 66.2% | 59.2% |
| GULFSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLIDAY | 393 | 75.6% | 35.2% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #870 of 2,136 | #21 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.8% | #1,023 of 2,149 ▲ 4 | #21 of 86 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.2% | #1,051 of 2,149 ▼ 103 | #28 of 86 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 274 | #2,025 of 2,267 | #84 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #466 of 2,077 | #6 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.9% | #1,327 of 2,108 | #76 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.9% | #254 of 2,188 | #31 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.3% | #350 of 1,374 | #7 of 39 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
274
-43 (-14%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 385
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 274 | 19 | 14.4:1 | 76% (208) |
| 2023-24 | 296 | 19 | 15.6:1 | 78% (232) |
| 2022-23 | 350 | 20 | 17.5:1 | 61% (214) |
| 2020-21 | 317 | 23 | 13.8:1 | 65% (207) |
| 2017-18 | 362 | 25 | 14.5:1 | 63% (227) |
| 2015-16 | 337 | 23 | 14.7:1 | 63% (213) |
| 2010-11 | 349 | 24 | 14.5:1 | 82% (287) |
| 2000-01 | 307 | 21 | 14.6:1 | 73% (225) |
| 1990-91 | 385 | 24 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located in ALTURAS, Florida, is a low-enrollment elementary school. It has an enrollment of 274 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
POLK runs ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL along with 162 other schools, enrolling 116,552 students in total.
The largest group at ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White students, at 65%. Enrollment also includes 24% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 3% multiracial. Among people living in Polk County, the White share is about 56%. The diversity index for ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 51%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 19 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.4:1. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. Roughly 76% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Polk County is 65%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 74%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 60.0%. Predicted: 43.1%. Difference: 16.9 points.
In the wider Polk County area, the median household earns about $65,978 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Polk County with 171 other public schools.
Among nearby public schools, SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY is closest at about 4.5 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within ten miles of ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On state test proficiency, ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd in a group of 5 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Rural: Fringe: the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
A 14% decline took enrollment from 317 in 2020-21 to 274 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
790,694
Census ACS
Median income
$65,978
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
172
117,004 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
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Other Alturas Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Alturas Elementary. ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHAILEY, ID · 445 students
- Alturas ElementaryAlturas, CA · 333 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY4.5 mi · 689
- WAHNETA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.6 mi · 491
- CHAIN OF LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.1 mi · 1,007
- POLK COUNTY SHERIFFS REGIONAL DETENTION CENTER6.6 mi · 58
- POLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S CENTRAL CENTER6.6 mi · 45
- POLK HALFWAY HOUSE6.7 mi · 24
Frequently asked questions
About ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 274 students in grades PK-05.
Is ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.4:1 (19 FTE teachers).
How diverse is ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 65% White, 24% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by POLK in Polk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.