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What's the most underrated thing about LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
688
Elementary
DISTRICT 572 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAY·NCES 120009000049
LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
301 W 9TH ST, LYNN HAVEN, FL 32444 · (850) 767-1454 · Bay County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL688 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
269 students
DISTRICT 46% · 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 | 67 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 112 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 120 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (112) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
39%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
57.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.9pp since 2023
Math
63.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.2% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.2% | 59.9% |
% 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
57.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (57.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 688 | 39.1% | 57.9% |
| SHADEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CRAWFORDVILLE | 653 | 40.3% | 69.7% |
| CRAWFORDVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CRAWFORDVILLE | 691 | 42.0% | 60.3% |
| PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORMOND BEACH | 737 | 39.6% | 72.0% |
| ENTERPRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COCOA | 597 | 42.5% | 70.6% |
| ATLANTIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COCOA | 650 | 44.2% | 66.0% |
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 LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Bay County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.9% | #962 of 2,136 | #9 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #965 of 2,149 ▼ 24 | #7 of 23 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #971 of 2,149 ▲ 42 | #11 of 23 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 688 | #746 of 2,267 | #7 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #819 of 2,077 | #7 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.2% | #1,682 of 2,108 | #20 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.1% | #1,608 of 2,188 | #17 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #1,243 of 1,374 | #6 of 10 |
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
688
+147 (+27%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 892
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 688 | 45 | 15.3:1 | 39% (269) |
| 2023-24 | 676 | 44 | 15.4:1 | 47% (321) |
| 2022-23 | 699 | 38 | 18.4:1 | 46% (324) |
| 2020-21 | 541 | 36 | 15.0:1 | 40% (218) |
| 2017-18 | 709 | 47 | 15.1:1 | 52% (370) |
| 2015-16 | 779 | 50 | 15.6:1 | 50% (393) |
| 2010-11 | 723 | 48 | 15.1:1 | 40% (288) |
| 2000-01 | 861 | 47 | 18.3:1 | 33% (286) |
| 1990-91 | 892 | 50 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in LYNN HAVEN, Florida. It enrolls 688 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5.
BAY (47 schools, 27,494 students) runs LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About 77% of the student body at LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White. Other groups make up 8% Black, 7% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Bay County residents are about 75% White, a similar share. A diversity index of 39% means there is a 39% chance two randomly chosen students at LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1, with 45 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 39% at LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
In Florida, LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 57.9% actual against a predicted 61.6%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Bay County show that the median household earns about $73,533 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 30%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Bay County has 50 public schools with about 27,672 students, including LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
MOWAT MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 1.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 62.9% on proficiency, and LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is below that at 57.9%.
LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Mid-size locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
In 2020-21, LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 541 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 688.
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Bay County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
186,393
Census ACS
Median income
$73,533
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
27,672 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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- A. CRAWFORD MOSLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,864 students
- DEANE BOZEMAN SCHOOLCombined · 1,690 students
- J.R. ARNOLD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,629 students
- RUTHERFORD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,394 students
- BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,289 students
- BREAKFAST POINT ACADEMYElementary · 1,089 students
Other schools in LYNN HAVEN
- A. CRAWFORD MOSLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,864 students
- MOWAT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 803 students
Nearby schools
- MOWAT MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 803
- A. CRAWFORD MOSLEY HIGH SCHOOL2.4 mi · 1,864
- NEW HORIZONS LEARNING CENTER2.6 mi · 93
- BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY2.6 mi · 766
- BAY HAVEN CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL2.6 mi · 429
- SOUTHPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 531
Frequently asked questions
About LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 688 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.3:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 77% White, 7% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BAY.
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