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ENGLISH ESTATES 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 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier primary school in FERN PARK, Florida, overseen by SEMINOLE, works with 637 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 74 schools in SEMINOLE (63,934 students total), ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% White, 19% Black, 7% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 71% of students at ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Seminole County's rate of about 47%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of +7.0 points.
In the broader community, Seminole County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,761, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Seminole County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,934 students), of which ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: MAITLAND MIDDLE, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.8%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. ENGLISH ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 724 (now 637). Class-load math has loosened: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.
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Seminole County at a glance
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