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Enrollment
524
Elementary
DISTRICT 669 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO·NCES 120153002678
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
8636 TROUBLE CREEK RD, NEW PORT RICHEY, FL 34653 · (727) 774-8900 · Pasco County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL524 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of Florida public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
14.7:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
243 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 13 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
65.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +15.3pp since 2023
Math
59.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +12.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.3% | 59.2% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 46.7% |
% 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
57.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (57.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 524 | 46.4% | 57.2% |
| YULEE PRIMARY SCHOOL YULEE | 582 | 47.9% | N/A |
| ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENGLEWOOD | 564 | 45.9% | 70.9% |
| LULA J. EDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NICEVILLE | 501 | 46.5% | 70.5% |
| JENSEN BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JENSEN BEACH | 611 | 45.2% | 73.2% |
| TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MERRITT ISLAND | 569 | 46.2% | 66.8% |
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 DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pasco County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #986 of 2,136 | #27 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.2% | #1,135 of 2,149 ▲ 415 | #29 of 60 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #615 of 2,149 ▲ 559 | #15 of 60 ▲ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 524 | #1,321 of 2,267 | #44 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #589 of 2,077 | #19 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.8% | #1,380 of 2,108 | #52 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.4% | #1,403 of 2,188 | #29 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.9% | #1,296 of 1,374 | #25 of 27 |
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
524
+21 (+4%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 1,129
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 524 | 35.6 | 14.7:1 | 46% (243) |
| 2023-24 | 491 | 36.7 | 13.4:1 | 52% (255) |
| 2022-23 | 476 | 35.7 | 13.3:1 | 55% (260) |
| 2020-21 | 503 | 36 | 14.0:1 | 46% (229) |
| 2017-18 | 534 | 44 | 12.1:1 | 52% (278) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 49 | 12.1:1 | 49% (289) |
| 2010-11 | 680 | 58 | 11.7:1 | 41% (279) |
| 2000-01 | 896 | 54 | 16.6:1 | 17% (156) |
| 1990-91 | 1,129 | 58 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school based in NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida. Enrollment totals 524 students across pre-K through 5.
Across its 105 schools, PASCO enrolls 86,873 students. DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
Federal enrollment data show DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 67% White. Enrollment also includes 20% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 3% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
For every teacher at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are about 14.7 students; the school has 35.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Florida, 17.5:1, is higher. There are 243 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 46% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Pasco County is 37%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 46%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are within a point of what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (57.2% actual, 57.9% predicted).
In Pasco County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $70,492 a year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Counting DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Pasco County has 111 public schools.
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is PLATO ACADEMY TRINITY CHARTER SCHOOL, about 1.2 miles away. The five-mile area around DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd of 7 nearby schools, at 57.2% versus a 52.6% average.
NCES assigns DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment increased by 4% across 4 years, from 503 in 2020-21 to 524 in 2024-25.
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Pasco County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
611,444
Census ACS
Median income
$70,492
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
86,873 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PASCO
- LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,233 students
- WIREGRASS RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,218 students
- SUNLAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,206 students
- JAMES W. MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,201 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,006 students
- WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,928 students
Other schools in NEW PORT RICHEY
- RIVER RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,798 students
- GULF HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,518 students
- DAYSPRING ACADEMYCombined · 1,259 students
- RIVER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,026 students
- ODESSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 984 students
- GULF MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 796 students
Other Deer Park Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 6 states are named Deer Park Elementary. DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 8.
- DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTAMPA, FL · 957 students
- Deer Park Elementary SchoolDEER PARK, TX · 661 students
- Deer Park ElementaryCentreville, VA · 522 students
- Deer Park Elementary SchoolOwensboro, KY · 480 students
- Deer Park ElementaryNewport News, VA · 433 students
Nearby schools
- PLATO ACADEMY TRINITY CHARTER SCHOOL1.2 mi · 489
- COTEE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 526
- SEVEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 469
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS2.3 mi · 55
- LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 601
- GULF MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 796
Frequently asked questions
About DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 524 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.7:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 67% White, 20% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PASCO.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.