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If you could change one rule at GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
625
Elementary
DISTRICT 669 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO·NCES 120153007406
GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3303 GULF TRACE BLVD, HOLIDAY, FL 34691 · (727) 246-3600 · Pasco County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL625 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
431 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 | 40 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
66%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
46.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +10.2pp since 2023
Math
41.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.8% | 41.9% |
| 2023-24 | 36.7% | 34.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (44.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 625 | 69.0% | 44.4% |
| FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BARTOW | 585 | 70.9% | 47.5% |
| BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLEVIEW | 681 | 67.4% | 43.7% |
| WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ZEPHYRHILLS | 625 | 66.7% | 31.7% |
| ORANGE CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE CITY | 594 | 66.8% | 42.7% |
| JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 586 | 69.6% | 52.6% |
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 TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pasco County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #1,618 of 2,136 | #40 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.9% | #1,859 of 2,149 ▲ 121 | #44 of 60 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #1,454 of 2,149 ▲ 321 | #38 of 60 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 625 | #944 of 2,267 | #32 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #548 of 2,077 | #18 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.5% | #522 of 2,108 | #21 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.0% | #498 of 2,188 | #13 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.2% | #620 of 621 | #26 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
625
+49 (+9%) vs 2020
+3% since 2010-11, when it was 604
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 625 | 42.7 | 14.6:1 | 69% (431) |
| 2023-24 | 694 | 43.5 | 16.0:1 | 77% (532) |
| 2022-23 | 611 | 35.1 | 17.4:1 | 84% (515) |
| 2020-21 | 576 | 42 | 13.7:1 | 78% (449) |
| 2017-18 | 624 | 49 | 12.7:1 | 83% (517) |
| 2015-16 | 710 | 59 | 12.0:1 | 80% (571) |
| 2010-11 | 604 | 49 | 12.3:1 | 65% (393) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school located in HOLIDAY, Florida. It has an enrollment of 625 students in pre-K through 5.
Across its 105 schools, PASCO enrolls 86,873 students. GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The biggest share of students at GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 48%, is White. The next largest groups are 31% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 9% multiracial. In Pasco County overall, about 72% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 66%.
Its staff includes 42.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 14.6 students per teacher. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is 2.8 students per teacher. Roughly 69% of students at GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That is 32 points above the 37% average for public schools in Pasco County.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is -2.2 points: 44.4% actual, 46.6% predicted.
In Pasco County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $70,492 a year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Pasco County number 111, with about 86,873 students.
SUNRAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 1.3 miles from GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count rose 9% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 HOLIDAY
- ANCLOTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,150 students
- PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 830 students
- SUNRAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 420 students
- GULFSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 393 students
Nearby schools
- SUNRAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 420
- ANCLOTE HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 1,150
- PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 830
- GULFSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 393
- MITTYE P. LOCKE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY PREV PK-52.4 mi · 84
- ANCLOTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 543
Frequently asked questions
About GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 625 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 48% White, 31% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PASCO in Pasco County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.