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CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a close-knit K-5 school in KISSIMMEE, Florida, CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 455 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by OSCEOLA. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 604.
CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 83 schools operated by OSCEOLA, a district that serves 75,388 students overall.
On the student-mix side, CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 10% Black, 9% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.
Looking at school resources, CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 62% of students at CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Osceola County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.3%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Osceola County) reports that median household earnings sit near $72,637, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Osceola County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students), CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is LINCOLN-MARTI CHARTER SCHOOLS(OSCEOLA CAMPUS), roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.0%.
CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 35%: 703 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 85% to 76% across the same window.
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