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LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida, LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized primary school, operated by PASCO. It caters to 601 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 105 schools in PASCO (86,873 students total), LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.8%, the actual is 64.1%, a residual of -0.7 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pasco County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,492 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Pasco County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students), LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
TRINITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 63.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 679 students in 2018 compared to 601 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 87% to 80% over that span.
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Pasco County at a glance
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