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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY this year?
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Enrollment
1,108
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159008417
CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY
1775 SAND MINE RD, DAVENPORT, FL 33897 · (863) 259-4001 · Polk County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,108 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 6% of Florida public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
16.5:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
655 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 | 36 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 6% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 153 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 174 | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 261 | 24% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 75% smaller than its 8th grade class (261).
Student demographics
58%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
39.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.1pp since 2023
Math
39.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.3% | 39.8% |
| 2023-24 | 33.1% | 32.8% |
% 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
36.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% 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 CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY
CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY's state test result (36.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY this school | 1,108 | 59.1% | 36.5% |
| TORTUGA PRESERVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEHIGH ACRES | 1,172 | 57.5% | 35.2% |
| LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DAVENPORT | 1,179 | 54.4% | 37.3% |
| MIDDLETON-BURNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CRESCENT CITY | 1,056 | 60.1% | 37.9% |
| SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 906 | 55.0% | 45.3% |
| MIRROR LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEHIGH ACRES | 1,237 | 65.0% | 52.1% |
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 CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #1,935 of 2,136 | #75 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #1,927 of 2,149 ▲ 80 | #68 of 86 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #1,803 of 2,149 ▲ 121 | #65 of 86 ▲ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,108 | #128 of 2,267 | #8 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #1,282 of 2,077 | #31 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.3% | #977 of 2,108 | #66 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.1% | #943 of 2,188 | #64 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.0% | #61 of 1,374 | #2 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
1,108
-639 (-37%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 1,108 | 67 | 16.5:1 | 59% (655) |
| 2023-24 | 1,347 | 81 | 16.6:1 | 58% (784) |
| 2022-23 | 1,457 | 95 | 15.3:1 | 48% (701) |
| 2020-21 | 1,747 | 108 | 16.2:1 | 57% (998) |
| 2017-18 | 1,879 | 100 | 18.8:1 | 51% (956) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY.
About CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY
Located in DAVENPORT, Florida, CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY is a large elementary school. The school counted 1,108 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 8. It has 83% more students than the average for elementary schools in Florida (about 604).
POLK has 163 schools and 116,552 students, and CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY is one of those schools.
The share of Hispanic students at CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY is 59%, a majority. The remaining students are 19% Black, 17% White, and 4% multiracial. Census figures show Polk County is about 29% Hispanic. A diversity index of 58% means there is a 58% chance two randomly chosen students at CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY are from different groups.
A staff of 67 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 16.5:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida, 17.5:1, is higher. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 59%.
CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 6% of Florida public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY posts 36.5% against a 51.5% prediction, a bottom-10% result in Florida.
For the population of Polk County, the median household earns about $65,978 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across Polk County, 172 public schools serve about 117,004 students.
Measured in a straight line, BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF POLK is about 0.8 miles from CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY comes in 9th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school's student count fell 37% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in POLK
- HAINES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,105 students
- DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,731 students
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,648 students
- 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 DAVENPORT
- DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,731 students
- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMYCombined · 1,581 students
- HORIZONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,543 students
- DAVENPORT SCHOOL OF THE ARTSElementary · 1,440 students
- FOUR CORNERS UPPER SCHOOLHigh · 1,401 students
Nearby schools
- BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF POLK0.8 mi · 613
- WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,496
- FOUR CORNERS CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,103
- BELLA CITTA2.4 mi · 1,459
- FOUR CORNERS UPPER SCHOOL2.5 mi · 1,401
- ACADEMIR PREPARATORY OF CHAMPIONSGATE3.4 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY?
CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY enrolls approximately 1,108 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY serve?
CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY have?
CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY employs 67 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.5:1.
What is the student diversity at CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY?
Student demographics at CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY are roughly 17% White, 59% Hispanic, 19% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY public or private?
CITRUS RIDGE A CIVICS ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by POLK.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.