Enrollment
268
Elementary
DISTRICT 414 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALACHUA·NCES 120003000005
LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4401 SE 4TH AVE, GAINESVILLE, FL 32641 · (352) 955-6710 · Alachua County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL268 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
227 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
39.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.2pp since 2023
Math
26.8%
FL avg 58.9% . -10.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.3% | 26.8% |
| 2023-24 | 38.1% | 37.6% |
% 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
34.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (34.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 268 | 84.7% | 34.7% |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER ELEMENTARY JACKSONVILLE | 297 | 83.5% | 33.7% |
| SUSIE E. TOLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 245 | 80.8% | 21.4% |
| IVEY LANE ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 284 | 82.4% | 50.0% |
| O. J. SEMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENSACOLA | 344 | 86.3% | 27.3% |
| RENAISSANCE ACADEMY TALLAHASSEE | 243 | 80.2% | 37.2% |
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 LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Alachua County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.7% | #1,989 of 2,136 | #24 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.8% | #2,127 of 2,149 ▼ 216 | #25 of 27 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #1,799 of 2,149 ▼ 67 | #22 of 27 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 268 | #2,034 of 2,267 | #23 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #362 of 2,077 | #8 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.6% | #1,715 of 2,108 | #19 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.7% | #68 of 2,188 | #3 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.6% | #155 of 1,374 | #3 of 21 |
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
268
-65 (-20%) vs 2020
-55% since 1990-91, when it was 597
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 268 | 19 | 14.1:1 | 85% (227) |
| 2023-24 | 286 | 25 | 11.4:1 | 93% (265) |
| 2022-23 | 330 | 21.5 | 15.3:1 | 92% (304) |
| 2020-21 | 333 | 25 | 13.3:1 | 91% (303) |
| 2017-18 | 392 | 27 | 14.5:1 | 91% (355) |
| 2015-16 | 489 | 35 | 14.0:1 | 86% (420) |
| 2010-11 | 379 | 34 | 11.2:1 | 91% (343) |
| 2000-01 | 455 | 37 | 12.3:1 | 91% (415) |
| 1990-91 | 597 | 37 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school with an address in GAINESVILLE, Florida. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 268 students. Elementary schools in Florida have about 604 students on average; enrollment here is 56% lower.
ALACHUA is the district for LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It has 60 schools and 28,255 students.
The largest group at LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Black students, at 78%. Enrollment also includes 9% Hispanic, 8% White, and 4% multiracial. Among people living in Alachua County, the Black share is about 19%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 38%.
Teacher count: 19 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.1:1. Compared with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 85%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Alachua County is 48%.
LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (34.7%) and its predicted rate (38.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
The school is in Alachua County, where median household income comes to about $61,949, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Alachua County counts 68 public schools with about 29,618 students.
EASTSIDE HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.5 miles from LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 49.0%, higher than LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 34.7%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Mid-size.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had a net loss of 65 students, or 20%.
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Alachua County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
285,492
Census ACS
Median income
$61,949
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
29,618 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALACHUA
- F. W. BUCHHOLZ HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,416 students
- GAINESVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,825 students
- EASTSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,291 students
- SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,132 students
- KANAPAHA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,014 students
- OAK VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 962 students
Other schools in GAINESVILLE
- F. W. BUCHHOLZ HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,416 students
- GAINESVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,825 students
- P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOLCombined · 1,363 students
- EASTSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,291 students
- KANAPAHA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,014 students
- WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 854 students
Other Lake Forest Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 4 states are named Lake Forest Elementary. LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 6th largest of the 6.
- LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPEMBROKE PARK, FL · 555 students
- Lake Forest ElementaryGreenville, SC · 829 students
- Lake Forest ElementaryLake Forest, CA · 640 students
- Lake Forest ElementaryAtlanta, GA · 534 students
- Lake Forest ElementaryEl Dorado Hills, CA · 421 students
Nearby schools
- EASTSIDE HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,291
- PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY MAGNET AT LOFTEN HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 328
- HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND1.8 mi · 29
- EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY AT DUVAL1.8 mi · 117
- CHALLENGE AT ALACHUA ACADEMY2.2 mi · 25
- JOSEPH WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 398
Frequently asked questions
About LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 268 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.1:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 8% White, 9% Hispanic, 78% Black, 4% Two or more.
Is LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ALACHUA.
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