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NEPTUNE 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 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 NEPTUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in SAINT CLOUD, Florida, NEPTUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a large primary school, operated by OSCEOLA. It educates 1,052 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 74% above typical.
OSCEOLA comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 75,388 students; NEPTUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
In terms of who attends, NEPTUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 14% White, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school lists 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 51% of students at NEPTUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NEPTUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.5%, the actual is 47.2%, a residual of -8.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Osceola County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,637, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Osceola County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students), of which NEPTUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: NEPTUNE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NEPTUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.4%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 8%: 970 students in 2018 compared to 1,052 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 18% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.
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