GRASSY LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a sizable elementary school in MINNEOLA, Florida, GRASSY LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL caters to 1,293 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under LAKE. That puts it 114% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

LAKE comprises 60 schools with combined enrollment of 47,997 students; GRASSY LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GRASSY LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 32% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 25% of students at GRASSY LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lake County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GRASSY LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.9%; this one delivers 63.8%.

Across the wider county, Lake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,161 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lake County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,997 students), of which GRASSY LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LAKE MINNEOLA HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GRASSY LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 70.0%.

GRASSY LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 31%: 988 students in 2018 compared to 1,293 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 50% to 46% over that span.

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