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What's something LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
555
Elementary
DISTRICT 670 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OKALOOSA·NCES 120138001354
LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
50 HOLLY AVE, SHALIMAR, FL 32579 · (850) 833-4329 · Okaloosa County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL555 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
425 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 23 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 120 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
31.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.4pp since 2023
Math
37.5%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 2 points 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 | 31.4% | 37.5% |
| 2023-24 | 33.8% | 39.2% |
% 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
34.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (34.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 555 | 76.6% | 34.8% |
| WINTER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINTER SPRINGS | 501 | 75.6% | 58.7% |
| WRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT WALTON BEACH | 609 | 80.6% | 39.4% |
| PALM VIEW K-8 SCHOOL PALMETTO | 606 | 75.1% | 45.9% |
| WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAUCHULA | 577 | 75.7% | 58.5% |
| NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAUCHULA | 516 | 76.9% | 43.5% |
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 LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Okaloosa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #1,986 of 2,136 | #20 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #1,988 of 2,149 ▼ 141 | #20 of 20 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #2,038 of 2,149 ▼ 142 | #20 of 20 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 555 | #1,202 of 2,267 | #14 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #1,221 of 2,077 | #5 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #602 of 2,108 | #9 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.6% | #244 of 2,188 | #3 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #1,163 of 1,374 | #11 of 16 |
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
555
+14 (+3%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 540
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 555 | 34 | 16.3:1 | 77% (425) |
| 2023-24 | 574 | 30 | 19.1:1 | 74% (424) |
| 2022-23 | 548 | 33 | 16.6:1 | 74% (408) |
| 2020-21 | 541 | 37 | 14.6:1 | 74% (398) |
| 2017-18 | 585 | 39 | 15.0:1 | 68% (399) |
| 2015-16 | 651 | 44 | 14.8:1 | 74% (483) |
| 2010-11 | 496 | 34 | 14.6:1 | 65% (321) |
| 2000-01 | 573 | 36 | 15.9:1 | 49% (281) |
| 1990-91 | 540 | 32 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school that serves part of SHALIMAR, Florida. It enrolled 555 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
OKALOOSA has a total of 49 schools and 32,120 students, LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
By race and ethnicity, LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 52% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 24% White, 12% Black, 9% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Census figures show Okaloosa County is about 11% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 65%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1 at LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among elementary schools in Florida, the typical ratio is 17.5:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 77% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Okaloosa County is 50%.
LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 34.8%, compared with a predicted 42.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
Across Okaloosa County, median household income is about $81,998, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 51 public schools in Okaloosa County.
The nearest other public school, CLIFFORD MEIGS MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 1.0 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 8th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Mid-size).
The number of students climbed from 541 to 555 over 4 years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 14.6:1 to 16.3:1.
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Okaloosa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
216,599
Census ACS
Median income
$81,998
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
32,120 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OKALOOSA
- CRESTVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,376 students
- NICEVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,036 students
- CHOCTAWHATCHEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,720 students
- FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,550 students
- BAKER SCHOOLCombined · 1,434 students
- DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,111 students
Other schools in SHALIMAR
- CLIFFORD MEIGS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 612 students
- SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 557 students
Other Longwood Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Longwood Elementary. LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLONGWOOD, FL · 573 students
- Longwood ElementaryHayward, CA · 517 students
- Longwood Elementary SchoolGlenwood, IL · 364 students
- Longwood Elementary SchoolNaperville, IL · 346 students
Nearby schools
- CLIFFORD MEIGS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 612
- SHALIMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 557
- KENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 471
- OKALOOSA TECHNICAL COLLEGE1.8 mi · 42
- CHOCTAWHATCHEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 1,720
- W. C. PRYOR MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 721
Frequently asked questions
About LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 555 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
How diverse is LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 24% White, 52% Hispanic, 12% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by OKALOOSA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.