CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a mid-sized elementary school in LAKE MARY, Florida, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 685 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of SEMINOLE.

SEMINOLE comprises 74 schools with combined enrollment of 63,934 students; CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 35% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 35% White, 14% Black, 8% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Seminole County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.3%, the actual is 59.5%, a residual of +4.3 points.

Across the wider county, Seminole County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,761, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 77 public schools in Seminole County (combined enrollment of about 63,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: UCP SEMINOLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 776 students in 2018 compared to 685 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 48% to 35% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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