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What's one thing JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
621
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159001770
JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
815 PLATEAU AVE, LAKELAND, FL 33815 · (863) 499-2880 · Polk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL621 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Florida public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
21.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
508 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 | 41 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 124 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
47%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
30.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
44.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.5% | 44.1% |
| 2023-24 | 28.4% | 35.8% |
% 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
35.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (35.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 621 | 81.8% | 35.8% |
| SAMOSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 544 | 81.1% | 33.9% |
| GOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLE GLADE | 691 | 80.8% | 38.3% |
| TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 698 | 79.4% | 45.9% |
| GOCIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 654 | 81.2% | 44.7% |
| CLAIR-MEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 536 | 77.2% | 30.7% |
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 JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.8% | #1,954 of 2,136 | #78 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #1,785 of 2,149 ▲ 167 | #57 of 86 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.5% | #2,058 of 2,149 ▼ 17 | #83 of 86 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 621 | #953 of 2,267 | #41 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.4:1 | #2,005 of 2,077 | #79 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.4% | #1,466 of 2,108 | #82 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.8% | #118 of 2,188 | #7 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.1% | #542 of 621 | #31 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
621
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 639
Student : Teacher
21.4:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 621 | 29 | 21.4:1 | 82% (508) |
| 2023-24 | 614 | 40 | 15.3:1 | 83% (509) |
| 2022-23 | 649 | 39 | 16.6:1 | 67% (433) |
| 2020-21 | 636 | 44 | 14.4:1 | 76% (485) |
| 2017-18 | 608 | 41 | 14.8:1 | 81% (495) |
| 2015-16 | 621 | 43 | 14.4:1 | 85% (526) |
| 2010-11 | 551 | 41 | 13.4:1 | 93% (514) |
| 2000-01 | 658 | 46 | 14.3:1 | 89% (585) |
| 1990-91 | 639 | 43 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In LAKELAND, Florida, part of Polk County, JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school. It teaches 621 students in pre-K through 5.
POLK runs JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL along with 162 other schools, enrolling 116,552 students in total.
The student body at JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 70% Hispanic. It is also 16% Black and 13% White. Polk County's residents are about 29% Hispanic, 40 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 47% means there is a 47% chance two randomly chosen students at JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
For every teacher at JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are about 21.4 students; the school has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has more students per teacher. There are 508 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 82% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Polk County average 65%.
JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 13% of Florida public elementary schools.
JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 35.8% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 40.2%.
In the surrounding county, Polk County, the median household earns about $65,978 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 24%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Polk County has 172 public schools.
JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's nearest public school is MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY (about 0.9 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 7th on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 621, starting from 636. The number of students per teacher increased from 14.4 to 21.4 over 4 years.
The JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 LAKELAND
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,985 students
- LAKE GIBSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,973 students
- KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,861 students
- MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGYHigh · 1,750 students
- SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMYElementary · 1,200 students
Nearby schools
- MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY0.9 mi · 182
- POLK FULL TIME ESCHOOL1.0 mi · 429
- POLK VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM1.0 mi · 17
- MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY1.1 mi · 1,750
- ROSABELLE W. BLAKE ACADEMY1.4 mi · 562
- KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,861
Frequently asked questions
About JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 621 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 21.4:1 students per teacher at JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 13% White, 70% Hispanic, 16% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by POLK in Polk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.