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Enrollment
490
Elementary
DISTRICT 670 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OKALOOSA·NCES 120138001320
ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
7 WRIGHT PKWY SW, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL 32548 · (850) 833-3333 · Okaloosa County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL490 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
16.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
377 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 36 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
54.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +10.4pp since 2023
Math
51.5%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 51.5% |
| 2023-24 | 43.5% | 52.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
48.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 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 ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (48.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 490 | 76.9% | 48.4% |
| COMBEE ACADEMY OF DESIGN AND ENGINEERING LAKELAND | 479 | 76.2% | 56.3% |
| KATHLEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 453 | 78.8% | 41.4% |
| GULFSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLIDAY | 393 | 75.6% | 35.2% |
| MARY ESTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MARY ESTHER | 438 | 73.3% | 55.4% |
| ELLIOTT POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT WALTON BEACH | 583 | 74.6% | 50.2% |
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 ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Okaloosa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.4% | #1,410 of 2,136 | #18 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.5% | #1,487 of 2,149 ▼ 189 | #17 of 20 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,109 of 2,149 ▲ 355 | #14 of 20 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 490 | #1,461 of 2,267 | #17 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #1,400 of 2,077 | #9 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.4% | #177 of 2,108 | #3 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.9% | #232 of 2,188 | #2 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.1% | #540 of 621 | N/A |
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
490
+41 (+9%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 530
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 490 | 29 | 16.9:1 | 77% (377) |
| 2023-24 | 464 | 27 | 17.2:1 | 75% (346) |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 32 | 14.2:1 | 79% (360) |
| 2020-21 | 449 | 32 | 14.0:1 | 72% (324) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 34 | 14.1:1 | 73% (350) |
| 2015-16 | 459 | 35 | 13.1:1 | 75% (344) |
| 2010-11 | 478 | 35 | 13.7:1 | 68% (324) |
| 2000-01 | 419 | 26 | 16.1:1 | 61% (256) |
| 1990-91 | 530 | 30 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida. Its 490 students are spread across pre-K through 5.
OKALOOSA counts 49 schools and 32,120 students, including ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 40%. Other students are 30% Hispanic, 16% Black, and 12% multiracial. By comparison, Okaloosa County residents are about 72% White. The chance that two students picked at random at ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 70%.
With 29 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was 16.9:1. Elementary schools in Florida have a similar average ratio of 17.5:1. ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 77%. Across public schools in Okaloosa County, the average is 50%.
allk12 grades ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a C+. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 5.7 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
Okaloosa County has these Census figures: median household income is about $81,998, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 51 public schools in Okaloosa County.
The school nearest to ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.1 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 6th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
The number of students climbed from 449 to 490 over 4 years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 16.9:1, from 14.0:1.
The ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Okaloosa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
216,599
Census ACS
Median income
$81,998
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
32,120 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OKALOOSA
- CRESTVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,376 students
- NICEVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,036 students
- CHOCTAWHATCHEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,720 students
- FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,550 students
- BAKER SCHOOLCombined · 1,434 students
- DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,111 students
Other schools in FORT WALTON BEACH
- CHOCTAWHATCHEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,720 students
- FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,550 students
- LIZA JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOLElementary · 977 students
- W. C. PRYOR MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 721 students
- MAX BRUNER JUNIOR MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 677 students
- WRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 609 students
Nearby schools
- FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,550
- MAX BRUNER JUNIOR MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 677
- SILVER SANDS-EXCEP. CHILDREN0.6 mi · 93
- MARY ESTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 438
- WRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 609
- OKALOOSA ACADEMY1.9 mi · 115
Frequently asked questions
About ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 490 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1.
What is the student diversity at ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 40% White, 30% Hispanic, 16% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
ANNETTE P. EDWINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of OKALOOSA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.