1
If you had an hour of school board time for DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
910
Elementary
DISTRICT 670 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OKALOOSA·NCES 120138001328
DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
630 KELLY ST, DESTIN, FL 32541 · (850) 833-4360 · Okaloosa County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL910 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
405 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 9 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 174 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 153 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 203 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 199 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 172 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (174) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (172).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
72.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.5pp since 2023
Math
77.5%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.6% | 77.5% |
| 2023-24 | 67.1% | 77.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (73.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 910 | 44.5% | 73.7% |
| VIRGIL MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALMETTO | 863 | 44.3% | 64.9% |
| DEEP CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PT CHARLOTTE | 781 | 44.0% | 62.3% |
| FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 736 | 43.9% | 70.8% |
| LAKE ASBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREEN COVE SPRINGS | 935 | 46.8% | 64.8% |
| HIGH SPRINGS COMMUNITY SCHOOL HIGH SPRINGS | 902 | 40.9% | 66.4% |
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 DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Okaloosa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.7% | #332 of 2,136 | #4 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #366 of 2,149 ▼ 72 | #5 of 20 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #351 of 2,149 ▲ 108 | #4 of 20 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 910 | #293 of 2,267 | #4 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #1,473 of 2,077 | #14 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.3% | #1,212 of 2,108 | #17 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.5% | #1,454 of 2,188 | #17 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.8% | #1,344 of 1,374 | #16 of 16 |
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
910
-38 (-4%) vs 2020
+31% since 1990-91, when it was 695
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 910 | 53 | 17.2:1 | 45% (405) |
| 2023-24 | 933 | 59 | 15.8:1 | 39% (366) |
| 2022-23 | 976 | 59 | 16.5:1 | 41% (399) |
| 2020-21 | 948 | 59 | 16.1:1 | 43% (407) |
| 2017-18 | 917 | 57 | 16.1:1 | 39% (359) |
| 2015-16 | 866 | 52 | 16.6:1 | 40% (350) |
| 2010-11 | 866 | 54 | 16.0:1 | 29% (252) |
| 2000-01 | 761 | 38 | 20.0:1 | 9% (66) |
| 1990-91 | 695 | 33 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students in DESTIN, Florida, attend DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a large elementary school. It had 910 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 4. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
OKALOOSA has 32,120 students in 49 schools, and DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 65 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, and 2% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 53%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.2:1. The school has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Florida is about 17.5:1. Federal data show 45% of students (405) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than predicted by 14.8 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 73.7%; the prediction is 58.9%.
In Okaloosa County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $81,998 a year, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Okaloosa County number 51, with about 32,120 students.
About 2.9 miles separate DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: 2. DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 2nd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
Enrollment figures show a decrease of 38 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 16.1:1 to 17.2:1 over the same years.
This page is set up for the DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Okaloosa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
216,599
Census ACS
Median income
$81,998
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
32,120 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OKALOOSA
- CRESTVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,376 students
- NICEVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,036 students
- CHOCTAWHATCHEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,720 students
- FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,550 students
- BAKER SCHOOLCombined · 1,434 students
- DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,111 students
Other schools in DESTIN
- DESTIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 799 students
- DESTIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 599 students
Nearby schools
- DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL2.9 mi · 599
- DESTIN MIDDLE SCHOOL4.0 mi · 799
- EGLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.6 mi · 436
- SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.0 mi · 557
- CLIFFORD MEIGS MIDDLE SCHOOL6.2 mi · 612
- ADDIE R. LEWIS SCHOOL6.3 mi · 653
Frequently asked questions
About DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 910 students in grades PK-04.
Is DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many students per teacher at DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.2:1 students per teacher at DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 65% White, 19% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DESTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by OKALOOSA in Okaloosa County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.