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Enrollment
547
Elementary
DISTRICT 494 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HENDRY·NCES 120078000887
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1000 S DEANE DUFF AVE, CLEWISTON, FL 33440 · (863) 983-1550 · Hendry County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL547 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% 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.
- A-Beats 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
20.3:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
355 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
53.6%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.4pp since 2023
Math
70.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +10.7pp 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 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.6% | 70.1% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 59.4% |
% 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
60.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (60.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 547 | 64.9% | 60.3% |
| J. D. PARKER SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY STUART | 531 | 66.7% | 45.4% |
| PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DADE CITY | 639 | 64.3% | 35.7% |
| AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AVON PARK | 503 | 68.8% | 51.6% |
| DUNDEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY DUNDEE | 657 | 63.8% | 64.6% |
| LAWTON CHILES ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 503 | 65.2% | 61.6% |
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 CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hendry County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #854 of 2,136 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #644 of 2,149 ▲ 318 | #3 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #1,125 of 2,149 ▼ 231 | #3 of 6 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 547 | #1,235 of 2,267 | #3 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.3:1 | #1,956 of 2,077 | #5 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.6% | #776 of 2,108 | #1 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.9% | #694 of 2,188 | #4 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.7% | #1,010 of 1,374 | 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
547
-27 (-5%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 539
Student : Teacher
20.3:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 547 | 27 | 20.3:1 | 65% (355) |
| 2023-24 | 602 | 30 | 20.1:1 | 75% (449) |
| 2022-23 | 588 | 33 | 17.8:1 | 76% (449) |
| 2020-21 | 574 | 34 | 16.9:1 | 68% (390) |
| 2017-18 | 599 | 34 | 17.6:1 | 85% (512) |
| 2015-16 | 621 | 37 | 16.8:1 | 70% (437) |
| 2010-11 | 536 | 36 | 14.9:1 | 87% (467) |
| 2000-01 | 628 | 31 | 20.3:1 | 69% (432) |
| 1990-91 | 539 | 31 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in Florida, located in CLEWISTON. It covers pre-K through 5, with a total enrollment of 547 students.
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a school in HENDRY. The district has 13 schools and 13,430 students.
A majority of students at CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 54%, are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 23% White, 18% Black, and 3% multiracial. That is close to the 58% Hispanic share among all Hendry County residents. CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 62%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 20.3 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 65% of students. Across public schools in Hendry County, the average is about the same, 64%.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Florida schools: 60.3% actual against 48.6% predicted.
Across Hendry County, median household income is about $56,393, roughly 12% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 19%. The public schools of Hendry County number 16 and enroll about 7,592.
EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the public school closest to CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 4 other public schools within five miles. CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 60.3% against a local average of 49.1%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Distant: in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL went from 574 students to 547. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.9:1 in 2020-21, and 20.3:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Hendry County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,382
Census ACS
Median income
$56,393
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
12%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
7,592 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HENDRY
- DIGITAL ACADEMY OF FLORIDACombined · 6,069 students
- LABELLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,422 students
- CLEWISTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 966 students
- COUNTRY OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 935 students
- LABELLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 830 students
- CLEWISTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 679 students
Other schools in CLEWISTON
- CLEWISTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 966 students
- CLEWISTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 679 students
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 480 students
- EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 477 students
- Ahfachkee Day SchoolCombined · 231 students
- MONTURA EARLY LEARNING CENTERElementary · 22 students
Other Central Elementary schools
151 other US public schools in 35 states are named Central Elementary. CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 25th largest of the 152.
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOKEECHOBEE, FL · 571 students
- Central Elementary SchoolCarrollton, GA · 991 students
- CENTRAL ELEM.ST CHARLES, MO · 865 students
- Central ElementaryBanning, CA · 782 students
- Central ElementaryFresno, CA · 762 students
Nearby schools
- EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 477
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 480
- CLEWISTON HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 966
- CLEWISTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 679
- MOORE HAVEN MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL.12.0 mi · 498
- MOORE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL12.1 mi · 344
Frequently asked questions
About CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 547 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 20.3:1 students per teacher at CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 23% White, 54% Hispanic, 18% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HENDRY.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.