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KISSIMMEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About KISSIMMEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KISSIMMEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier elementary campus in KISSIMMEE, Florida, part of OSCEOLA, teaches 740 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 23% larger than typical.
OSCEOLA runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 75,388 students. KISSIMMEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, KISSIMMEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 10% White, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Osceola County as a whole is about 56% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, KISSIMMEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 55.3%; this one comes in at 33.6%, -21.7 points off the demographic line.
Zooming out to the county, Osceola County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,637, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Osceola County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students), KISSIMMEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KISSIMMEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 26%: 1,005 students in 2018 compared to 740 in 2025.
On this page, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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