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If you could change one rule at MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
708
Elementary
DISTRICT 626 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARLOTTE·NCES 120024000304
MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3131 LAKE VIEW BLVD, PORT CHARLOTTE, FL 33948 · (941) 255-7470 · Charlotte County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL708 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% of Florida public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
15.4:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
393 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 | 27 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 95 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 127 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (117).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
52.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.2pp since 2023
Math
62.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.4% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.6% | 61.7% |
% 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
57.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (57.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 708 | 55.5% | 57.1% |
| LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT CHARLOTTE | 764 | 55.2% | 58.9% |
| FRUITVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 704 | 55.0% | 64.1% |
| KINGSWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT CHARLOTTE | 579 | 54.6% | 49.0% |
| CRACKER TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEBRING | 710 | 54.6% | 59.1% |
| GULF GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 596 | 54.9% | 64.3% |
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 MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Charlotte County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #996 of 2,136 | #5 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,007 of 2,149 ▼ 129 | #6 of 10 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.4% | #1,197 of 2,149 ▼ 156 | #8 of 10 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 708 | #682 of 2,267 | #5 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #863 of 2,077 | #6 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.6% | #907 of 2,108 | #5 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.5% | #1,063 of 2,188 | #3 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.9% | #585 of 621 | #6 of 6 |
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
708
+121 (+21%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 820
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 708 | 46 | 15.4:1 | 56% (393) |
| 2023-24 | 669 | 42 | 15.9:1 | 71% (475) |
| 2022-23 | 701 | 49 | 14.3:1 | 59% (415) |
| 2020-21 | 587 | 43 | 13.7:1 | 52% (306) |
| 2017-18 | 702 | 49 | 14.3:1 | 59% (417) |
| 2015-16 | 750 | 52 | 14.4:1 | 73% (549) |
| 2010-11 | 432 | 36 | 12.0:1 | 63% (274) |
| 2000-01 | 723 | 43 | 16.8:1 | 49% (356) |
| 1990-91 | 820 | 44 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school with a street address in PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida. It reported 708 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
CHARLOTTE includes 24 schools. Together they enroll 16,997 students.
Federal enrollment data show MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 58% White. The next largest groups are 24% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 8% Black. The school's White share is 25 points below the 83% share among Charlotte County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.
The school lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 393 students, or 56%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Charlotte County report 43%.
MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 55% of Florida public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3.7 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 57.1% actual, 53.4% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Florida.
The county, Charlotte County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $69,952 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Counting MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Charlotte County has 25 public schools.
A public school about 1.8 miles away, CHARLOTTE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE, is the closest to MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 2nd of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Mid-size.
Enrollment rose by 21% across 4 years, from 587 in 2020-21 to 708 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 13.7:1 in 2020-21 to 15.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Charlotte County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
201,064
Census ACS
Median income
$69,952
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
16,997 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CHARLOTTE
- CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,872 students
- PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,730 students
- LEMON BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,343 students
- PUNTA GORDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,098 students
- BABCOCK NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLCombined · 1,053 students
- PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 858 students
Other schools in PORT CHARLOTTE
- PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,730 students
- PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 858 students
- LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 764 students
- NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 763 students
- MURDOCK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 656 students
- MYAKKA RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 624 students
Other Meadow Park Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Meadow Park Elementary. MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWEST PALM BEACH, FL · 813 students
- Meadow Park ElementaryIrvine, CA · 592 students
- MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR · 468 students
Nearby schools
- CHARLOTTE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE1.8 mi · 83
- THE ACADEMY1.9 mi · 298
- CHARLOTTE TECHNICAL COLLEGE1.9 mi · 12
- PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 1,730
- MURDOCK MIDDLE SCHOOL2.6 mi · 656
- LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 764
Frequently asked questions
About MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 708 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.4:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 58% White, 24% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by CHARLOTTE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.