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EAST LAKE 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 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 4001 BOGGY CREEK RD, in KISSIMMEE, Florida, EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier K-5 school that instructs 821 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by OSCEOLA. Enrollment runs roughly 36% bigger than the state mean of about 604.
EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 83 schools operated by OSCEOLA, a district that teaches 75,388 students overall.
On demographics, EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 18% White, 8% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Osceola County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.8%, the actual is 51.7%, a residual of -8.1 points.
In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Osceola County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students), of which EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
TOHOPEKALIGA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 65.3%.
EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 958 students in 2018 compared to 821 in 2025.
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