LAKE COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a moderately sized elementary campus in LAKE PLACID, Florida, LAKE COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 604 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by HIGHLANDS.

HIGHLANDS runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 12,040 students. LAKE COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LAKE COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 41% White, 8% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, LAKE COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, LAKE COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 57.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Highlands County put the typical household earns roughly $54,897 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Highlands County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,040 students), LAKE COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LAKE PLACID ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 3.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAKE COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 586 students in 2018 compared to 604 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 17% to 8% over that span.

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