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What's something CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
402
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159001706
CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3725 CLEVELND HTS BLVD, LAKELAND, FL 33803 · (863) 648-3510 · Polk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL402 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Florida public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
15.5:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
268 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 | 26 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
69%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
53.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +13.6pp since 2023
Math
47.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +12.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 47.5% |
| 2023-24 | 39.4% | 34.7% |
% 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
44.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (44.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 402 | 66.7% | 44.4% |
| MILA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MERRITT ISLAND | 382 | 68.6% | 41.7% |
| MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 402 | 64.7% | 50.8% |
| FUGUITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LARGO | 464 | 65.7% | 52.9% |
| KENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT WALTON BEACH | 471 | 67.1% | 54.0% |
| WILLISTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILLISTON | 515 | 63.3% | 45.8% |
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 CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #1,616 of 2,136 | #52 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #1,668 of 2,149 ▲ 306 | #45 of 86 ▲ 33 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,161 of 2,149 ▲ 500 | #29 of 86 ▲ 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 402 | #1,767 of 2,267 | #74 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #900 of 2,077 | #16 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.6% | #306 of 2,108 | #17 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #607 of 2,188 | #54 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.9% | #950 of 1,374 | #23 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
402
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 877
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 402 | 26 | 15.5:1 | 67% (268) |
| 2023-24 | 413 | 30 | 13.8:1 | 66% (273) |
| 2022-23 | 465 | 36 | 12.9:1 | 52% (241) |
| 2020-21 | 401 | 31 | 12.9:1 | 58% (231) |
| 2017-18 | 446 | 30 | 14.9:1 | 55% (246) |
| 2015-16 | 464 | 35 | 13.3:1 | 64% (297) |
| 2010-11 | 563 | 43 | 13.1:1 | 61% (342) |
| 2000-01 | 497 | 31 | 16.0:1 | 47% (234) |
| 1990-91 | 877 | 47 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school. Its address is in LAKELAND, Florida. It enrolled 402 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average about 604 students each.
POLK is made up of 163 schools with 116,552 students in all.
The most common group at CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White students, at 43%. It is also 28% Hispanic, 22% Black, and 4% multiracial. Polk County's residents are about 56% White, 12 points above the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 26 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 15.5:1. On average, elementary schools in Florida have 17.5:1, compared with 15.5:1 here. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 67% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Polk County average 65%.
The allk12 Grade for CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is C-. Compared with Florida public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 24% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 47.8%. It scores 44.4%, 3.3 points below that figure.
County data help place the school in context: in Polk County, the median household income is $65,978, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. In all, Polk County has 172 public schools and roughly 117,004 students.
The school nearest to CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is CLEVELAND COURT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of about 1.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's size has been steady, with 401 students in 2020-21 and 402 in 2024-25. Students per teacher rose from 12.9 in 2020-21 to 15.5 in 2024-25.
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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
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- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,276 students
Other schools in LAKELAND
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,985 students
- LAKE GIBSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,973 students
- KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,861 students
- MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGYHigh · 1,750 students
- SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMYElementary · 1,200 students
Nearby schools
- CLEVELAND COURT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 374
- LAKELAND HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 1,118
- SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 376
- SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 746
- HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 691
- DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 344
Frequently asked questions
About CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 402 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.5:1 students per teacher at CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 43% White, 28% Hispanic, 22% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees CARLTON PALMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CARLTON PALMORE 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.