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Enrollment
417
Elementary
DISTRICT 669 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO·NCES 120153002239
CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
7520 ORCHID LAKE RD, NEW PORT RICHEY, FL 34653 · (727) 774-3700 · Pasco County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL417 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 2% of Florida public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
17.4:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
271 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
37.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.1pp since 2023
Math
31.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 5 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 | 37.0% | 31.1% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 31.3% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
31.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (31.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 417 | 65.0% | 31.5% |
| HIGHLAND CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIGHLAND CITY | 414 | 63.5% | 56.9% |
| SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELTONA | 428 | 62.4% | 36.8% |
| HOBE SOUND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOBE SOUND | 464 | 62.3% | 52.7% |
| JAMES W. SIKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 502 | 61.6% | 56.8% |
| SEA WIND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOBE SOUND | 517 | 68.5% | 46.9% |
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 CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pasco County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.5% | #2,047 of 2,136 | #54 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.1% | #2,095 of 2,149 ▼ 45 | #55 of 60 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,887 of 2,149 ▲ 76 | #51 of 60 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 417 | #1,719 of 2,267 | #52 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #1,537 of 2,077 | #56 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #664 of 2,108 | #27 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.0% | #687 of 2,188 | #17 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #791 of 1,374 | #12 of 27 |
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
417
-78 (-16%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 862
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 417 | 24 | 17.4:1 | 65% (271) |
| 2023-24 | 443 | 28.4 | 15.6:1 | 77% (340) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 28.4 | 16.6:1 | 85% (404) |
| 2020-21 | 495 | 32 | 15.5:1 | 80% (398) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 33 | 14.6:1 | 84% (405) |
| 2015-16 | 610 | 46 | 13.3:1 | 81% (496) |
| 2010-11 | 595 | 53 | 11.2:1 | 73% (434) |
| 2000-01 | 743 | 40 | 18.6:1 | 55% (411) |
| 1990-91 | 862 | 41 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school based in NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 417 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Florida is about 604 students, so this school is 31% smaller than average.
CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in a 105-school district, PASCO, which enrolls 86,873 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The largest is White students, at 47%. Other students are 36% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 7% multiracial. That is lower than the 72% White share among all Pasco County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 64% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 17.4 students per teacher and 24 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida fairly closely. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 65%. That is higher than the 37% average for public schools in Pasco County.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the bottom 10% of Florida schools. It scores 31.5%; the prediction is 48.6%.
Among Pasco County residents, the median household income is $70,492, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 111 public schools in the county.
WENDELL KRINN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is located about 0.1 miles from CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 417 students in 2024-25, 78 fewer than the 495 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.5:1 to 17.4:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Pasco County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
611,444
Census ACS
Median income
$70,492
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
86,873 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PASCO
- LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,233 students
- WIREGRASS RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,218 students
- SUNLAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,206 students
- JAMES W. MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,201 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,006 students
- WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,928 students
Other schools in NEW PORT RICHEY
- RIVER RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,798 students
- GULF HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,518 students
- DAYSPRING ACADEMYCombined · 1,259 students
- RIVER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,026 students
- ODESSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 984 students
- GULF MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 796 students
Other Calusa Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Calusa Elementary. CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBOCA RATON, FL · 858 students
- CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 695 students
Nearby schools
- WENDELL KRINN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 765
- MARCHMAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE0.2 mi · 2
- CHASCO MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 622
- PEPIN ACADEMIES OF PASCO COUNTY0.6 mi · 300
- CHASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 612
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS0.9 mi · 55
Frequently asked questions
About CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 417 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.4:1 students per teacher at CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 47% White, 36% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PASCO in Pasco County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.