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What's the biggest difference between LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
915
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159001748
LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
925 BERKLEY RD, AUBURNDALE, FL 33823 · (863) 965-5464 · Polk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL915 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 10% 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.
- C-Beats 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
20.3:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
663 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 | 38 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 127 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 139 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 152 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 188 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 128 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 143 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (127) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (143).
Student demographics
67%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
36.7%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.8pp since 2023
Math
35.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.7% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.5% | 37.5% |
% 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
36.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (36.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 915 | 72.5% | 36.0% |
| WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURNDALE | 887 | 72.7% | 50.6% |
| PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAGLE LAKE | 740 | 73.0% | 46.9% |
| LEGACY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 753 | 71.0% | 32.8% |
| DR. NE ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 697 | 72.9% | 44.7% |
| GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 720 | 68.5% | 45.1% |
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 LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,952 of 2,136 | #77 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #2,037 of 2,149 ▼ 126 | #80 of 86 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.7% | #1,897 of 2,149 ▼ 140 | #71 of 86 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 915 | #282 of 2,267 | #14 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.3:1 | #1,961 of 2,077 | #72 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.7% | #449 of 2,108 | #31 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.5% | #366 of 2,188 | #44 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.0% | #509 of 621 | #29 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
915
+119 (+15%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 861
Student : Teacher
20.3:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 915 | 45 | 20.3:1 | 72% (663) |
| 2023-24 | 963 | 56 | 17.2:1 | 74% (716) |
| 2022-23 | 975 | 57 | 17.1:1 | 56% (547) |
| 2020-21 | 796 | 51 | 15.6:1 | 68% (539) |
| 2017-18 | 888 | 57 | 15.6:1 | 67% (593) |
| 2015-16 | 845 | 55 | 15.4:1 | 75% (636) |
| 2010-11 | 797 | 61 | 13.1:1 | 83% (659) |
| 2000-01 | 689 | 43 | 16.0:1 | 70% (480) |
| 1990-91 | 861 | 43 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a high-enrollment elementary school in AUBURNDALE, Florida. Total enrollment is 915 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. It has 51% more students than the average for elementary schools in Florida (about 604).
POLK has 163 schools; together they serve 116,552 students.
At LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 41%. Other groups include 34% White, 22% Black, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Polk County residents are about 29% Hispanic. A diversity index of 67% means there is a 67% chance two randomly chosen students at LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.3:1. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. The school has 72% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
LENA VISTA 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 10% of Florida public elementary schools.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 44.9%. LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 36.0%.
The school is in Polk County, where the median household earns about $65,978 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across Polk County, 172 public schools serve about 117,004 students.
The closest school to LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is JERE L. STAMBAUGH MIDDLE, located about 1.9 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 36.0% against a local average of 39.9%.
For locale, NCES codes LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Suburb: Large.
Federal enrollment counts rose from 796 (2020-21) to 915 (2024-25). There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (20.3:1) than in 2020-21 (15.6:1).
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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 AUBURNDALE
- AUBURNDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,770 students
- JERE L. STAMBAUGH MIDDLEMiddle · 1,013 students
- WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 887 students
- BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 696 students
- BERKLEY ACCELERATEDMiddle · 622 students
- CLARENCE BOSWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 600 students
Nearby schools
- JERE L. STAMBAUGH MIDDLE1.9 mi · 1,013
- AUBURNDALE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 371
- AUBURNDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 1,770
- CLARENCE BOSWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 600
- TENOROC HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 1,141
- WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 887
Frequently asked questions
About LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 915 students in grades PK-05.
Is LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.3:1.
What is the student diversity at LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 34% White, 41% Hispanic, 22% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of POLK.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.