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What advice would you give to incoming students at FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY?
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Enrollment
547
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159001728
FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY
601 AVENUE C SE, WINTER HAVEN, FL 33880 · (863) 291-5300 · Polk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL547 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of Florida public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
17.6:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
284 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 | 19 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
77.1%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.1% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 79.4% |
% 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
78.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% 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 23 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 FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY
FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY's state test result (78.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY this school | 547 | 51.9% | 78.4% |
| WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING LAKELAND | 536 | 51.1% | 70.2% |
| BAY HAVEN SCHOOL OF BASICS PLUS SARASOTA | 547 | 51.9% | 68.9% |
| IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE WEST MELBOURNE | 665 | 54.0% | 60.8% |
| BARTOW ELEMENTARY ACADEMY BARTOW | 524 | 49.0% | 65.8% |
| ROSEWOOD MAGNET SCHOOL VERO BEACH | 558 | 49.8% | 79.9% |
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 FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.4% | #216 of 2,136 | #6 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #253 of 2,149 ▼ 5 | #8 of 86 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #232 of 2,149 ▼ 102 | #6 of 86 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 547 | #1,238 of 2,267 | #51 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #1,606 of 2,077 | #50 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.7% | #223 of 2,108 | #8 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.9% | #1,220 of 2,188 | #75 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.4% | #608 of 621 | #33 of 35 |
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
547
-22 (-4%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 735
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 17.2:1
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 | 547 | 31 | 17.6:1 | 52% (284) |
| 2023-24 | 551 | 32 | 17.2:1 | 50% (273) |
| 2022-23 | 564 | 32 | 17.6:1 | 34% (192) |
| 2020-21 | 569 | 33 | 17.2:1 | 37% (211) |
| 2017-18 | 545 | 36 | 15.1:1 | 38% (206) |
| 2015-16 | 548 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 38% (207) |
| 2010-11 | 526 | 36 | 14.6:1 | 33% (174) |
| 2000-01 | 542 | 31 | 17.5:1 | 28% (153) |
| 1990-91 | 735 | 50 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY.
About FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY
FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY is a public elementary school run by POLK in WINTER HAVEN, Florida. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 547 students.
POLK has 163 schools and 116,552 students, and FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY is one of those schools.
At FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY, the largest share of students is White, at 40%. The school is also 26% Hispanic, 26% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. That is lower than the 56% White share among all Polk County residents. FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY's diversity index is 70%, against a US figure of 70%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 17.6:1, with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That matches the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida fairly closely. Lunch subsidy eligibility at FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY is 52%. Compared with the 65% average for public schools in Polk County, the school's rate is lower.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY is among the top 10% of schools in Florida. Predicted: 55.1%. Actual: 78.4%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Polk County, the median household income is $65,978, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Besides FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY, Polk County has 171 other public schools.
The closest public school, DENISON MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles from FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY places 1st out of 6 schools in its immediate area.
FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
The school enrolled 547 students in 2024-25, 22 fewer than the 569 it had in 2020-21.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
790,694
Census ACS
Median income
$65,978
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
172
117,004 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POLK
- HAINES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,105 students
- DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,731 students
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,648 students
- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,276 students
Other schools in WINTER HAVEN
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,648 students
- CHAIN OF LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,007 students
- NEW BEGINNINGS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 997 students
- FRED G. GARNER ACADEMYElementary · 817 students
- JEWETT SCHOOL OF THE ARTSElementary · 746 students
- WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 712 students
Nearby schools
- DENISON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 684
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 2,648
- LANGUAGE & LITERACY ACADEMY FOR LEARNING0.4 mi · 332
- CHAIN OF LAKES COLLEGIATE HIGH0.8 mi · 340
- CYPRESS JUNCTION MONTESSORI0.9 mi · 317
- ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 549
Frequently asked questions
About FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMYHow large is FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY?
FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY enrolls approximately 547 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY serve?
FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY have?
FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY?
At FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 40% White, 26% Hispanic, 26% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY public or private?
FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by POLK.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.