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What's the one class at CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
437
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159001710
CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
700 GALVIN DR, LAKELAND, FL 33801 · (863) 499-2966 · Polk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL437 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% 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.
- 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
16.2:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
349 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 | 63 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 36% larger than its 5th grade class (45).
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
30.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
35.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.8% | 35.4% |
| 2023-24 | 25.9% | 27.4% |
% 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
28.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (28.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 437 | 79.9% | 28.1% |
| BLACKBURN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALMETTO | 452 | 79.6% | 40.8% |
| IDEA LAKELAND LAKELAND | 452 | 81.9% | N/A |
| MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AVON PARK | 466 | 76.8% | 49.4% |
| GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 431 | 80.7% | 43.4% |
| FESSENDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 430 | 75.3% | 30.9% |
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 CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.1% | #2,096 of 2,136 | #85 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #2,025 of 2,149 ▲ 78 | #79 of 86 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #2,050 of 2,149 ▲ 34 | #81 of 86 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 437 | #1,652 of 2,267 | #69 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #1,190 of 2,077 | #26 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #275 of 2,108 | #14 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.9% | #153 of 2,188 | #16 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.0% | #996 of 1,374 | #26 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
437
+39 (+10%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 884
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 437 | 27 | 16.2:1 | 80% (349) |
| 2023-24 | 425 | 26 | 16.4:1 | 82% (349) |
| 2022-23 | 409 | 28 | 14.6:1 | 60% (246) |
| 2020-21 | 398 | 30 | 13.3:1 | 78% (312) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 36 | 13.3:1 | 79% (377) |
| 2015-16 | 588 | 44 | 13.4:1 | 80% (469) |
| 2010-11 | 489 | 37 | 13.2:1 | 88% (431) |
| 2000-01 | 681 | 39 | 17.5:1 | 79% (536) |
| 1990-91 | 884 | 47 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
At 700 GALVIN DR in LAKELAND, Florida, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a small elementary school. The school enrolls 437 students in pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Florida enroll around 604, and this school is 28% below that mark.
The 163 schools in POLK enroll 116,552 students altogether, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
About 43% of students at CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic, the largest single group. Smaller groups are 27% Black, 22% White, and 7% multiracial. County-wide, 29% of Polk County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 69%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 16.2:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. Roughly 80% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Polk County average 65%.
On the allk12 Grade, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at F, ahead of 3% of Florida public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Florida schools: 28.1% actual against 41.1% predicted.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Polk County show that median household income comes to about $65,978, roughly 24% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Polk County counts 172 public schools with about 117,004 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, POLK GRAD ACADEMY, is about 0.2 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th of 5 on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had a net gain of 39 students, or 10%. The number of students per teacher increased from 13.3 to 16.2 over 4 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 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
Other Crystal Lake Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Crystal Lake Elementary. CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKE MARY, FL · 685 students
- CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSTUART, FL · 443 students
Nearby schools
- POLK GRAD ACADEMY0.2 mi · 14
- FRESH START COMMUNITY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 105
- REAL ACADEMY (REACHING EVERY ADOLESCENT LEARNER)0.2 mi · 215
- CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 753
- SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY1.5 mi · 1,200
- OSCAR J. POPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 365
Frequently asked questions
About CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 437 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.2:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 22% White, 43% Hispanic, 27% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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.