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Enrollment
689
Elementary
DISTRICT 669 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO·NCES 120153006288
GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
8019 GULF HIGHLANDS DR, PORT RICHEY, FL 34668 · (727) 774-7700 · Pasco County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL689 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 3% of Florida public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.9:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
532 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 53 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 121 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
35.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +8.5pp since 2023
Math
33.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +11.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.5% | 33.4% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 21.6% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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%.
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 GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (29.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 689 | 77.2% | 29.7% |
| FOX HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT RICHEY | 636 | 77.8% | 27.8% |
| GLENALLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH PORT | 749 | 74.8% | 55.1% |
| RICHEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 750 | 72.3% | 25.0% |
| ELLIOTT POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT WALTON BEACH | 583 | 74.6% | 50.2% |
| WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRING HILL | 512 | 72.9% | 52.8% |
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 GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pasco County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #2,079 of 2,136 | #57 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.4% | #2,062 of 2,149 ▲ 72 | #53 of 60 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #1,932 of 2,149 ▲ 131 | #53 of 60 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 689 | #744 of 2,267 | #22 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #314 of 2,077 | #10 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.3% | #672 of 2,108 | #28 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.2% | #227 of 2,188 | #2 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.5% | #525 of 621 | #23 of 26 |
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
689
+29 (+4%) vs 2020
+20% since 2010-11, when it was 576
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 689 | 49.5 | 13.9:1 | 77% (532) |
| 2023-24 | 742 | 46.9 | 15.8:1 | 83% (614) |
| 2022-23 | 714 | 45.9 | 15.6:1 | 89% (637) |
| 2020-21 | 660 | 48 | 13.8:1 | 85% (564) |
| 2017-18 | 672 | 50 | 13.4:1 | 92% (619) |
| 2015-16 | 623 | 45 | 13.8:1 | 88% (547) |
| 2010-11 | 576 | 49 | 11.8:1 | 78% (451) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In PORT RICHEY, Florida, part of Pasco County, GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school. It enrolled 689 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
PASCO includes 105 schools. Together they enroll 86,873 students.
At 50%, White students outnumber all other groups at GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. The remaining students are 31% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 7% Black. Among people living in Pasco County, the White share is about 72%. GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 63%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its 49.5 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 13.9:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, higher than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 77% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is higher than the 37% average for public schools in Pasco County.
allk12 grades GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an F. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 29.7%, compared with a predicted 42.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
Within Pasco County, median household income is about $70,492, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 111 public schools in Pasco County, with a combined enrollment of about 86,873.
Nearby, BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.9 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 7th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students grew from 660 to 689 over 4 years.
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Pasco County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
611,444
Census ACS
Median income
$70,492
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
86,873 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PASCO
- LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,233 students
- WIREGRASS RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,218 students
- SUNLAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,206 students
- JAMES W. MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,201 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,006 students
- WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,928 students
Other schools in PORT RICHEY
- FOX HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 636 students
- CHASCO MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 622 students
- CHASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 612 students
- DAYSPRING JAZZElementary · 262 students
Nearby schools
- BAYONET POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 668
- SCHRADER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 572
- DAYSPRING JAZZ1.4 mi · 262
- LEARNING LODGE ACADEMY1.4 mi · 308
- FIVAY HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,554
- FOX HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 636
Frequently asked questions
About GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 689 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 50% White, 31% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PASCO.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.