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If you had an hour of school board time for OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
386
Elementary
DISTRICT 952 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. JOHNS·NCES 120174003120
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
355 LANDRUM LN, PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL 32082 · (904) 547-3760 · St. Johns County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL386 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% of Florida public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
12.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
36 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 50%
Community
1
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 | 24 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 24% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 63% smaller than its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
86.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
88.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 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 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.0% | 88.6% |
| 2023-24 | 81.6% | 80.9% |
% 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
84.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% 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 OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (84.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 386 | 9.3% | 84.0% |
| ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY PALM HARBOR | 421 | 12.4% | 88.3% |
| BROOKER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS | 501 | 14.6% | 83.0% |
| ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ATLANTIC BEACH | 482 | 15.4% | 80.5% |
| THE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ON THOMASVILLE TALLAHASSEE | 461 | 9.8% | 67.7% |
| GEMINI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MELBOURNE BEACH | 410 | 13.4% | 82.0% |
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 OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Johns County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #70 of 2,136 | #3 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.6% | #72 of 2,149 ▲ 131 | #3 of 27 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #45 of 2,149 ▲ 38 | #2 of 27 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 386 | #1,804 of 2,267 | #27 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #138 of 2,077 | #3 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.9% | #1,688 of 2,108 | #24 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.3% | #2,132 of 2,188 | #24 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -67.0% | #6 of 1,374 | #1 of 14 |
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
386
-296 (-43%) vs 2020
-36% since 2000-01, when it was 600
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 386 | 29.8 | 12.9:1 | 9% (36) |
| 2023-24 | 952 | 61 | 15.6:1 | 10% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 921 | 61.6 | 14.9:1 | 10% (94) |
| 2020-21 | 682 | 46 | 14.8:1 | 4% (27) |
| 2017-18 | 1,168 | 85 | 13.7:1 | 4% (44) |
| 2015-16 | 825 | 53 | 15.6:1 | 5% (41) |
| 2010-11 | 773 | 51 | 15.2:1 | 11% (84) |
| 2000-01 | 600 | 36 | 16.7:1 | 1% (6) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located in PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida, is a small elementary school. The school reports 386 students in pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 36% smaller than the 604 average for elementary schools in Florida.
ST. JOHNS runs OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL along with 52 other schools, enrolling 52,383 students in total.
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 77% White. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 79% White, within a few points of the school. By the diversity index, OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 39%.
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates with 29.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 12.9:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. About 9% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The rate at public schools in St. Johns County averages 21%, higher than here.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Florida, OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 84.0% actual against a predicted 76.5%.
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in St. Johns County, where median household income is about $109,839, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 68 public schools in St. Johns County, with a combined enrollment of about 52,895.
ALICE B. LANDRUM MIDDLE SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with 4 others within five miles. The school's 84.0% average proficiency ranks 6th among 9 nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 682 students in 2020-21 and 386 in 2024-25, according to federal records. Those counts may cover different grade spans. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.9:1) than in 2020-21 (14.8:1).
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St. Johns County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
306,934
Census ACS
Median income
$109,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
52,895 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ST. JOHNS
- TOCOI CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,616 students
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,479 students
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,214 students
- ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,177 students
- BARTRAM TRAIL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- MILL CREEK ACADEMYElementary · 1,983 students
Other schools in PONTE VEDRA BEACH
- PONTE VEDRA PALM VALLEY- RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 940 students
- ALICE B. LANDRUM MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 918 students
Nearby schools
- ALICE B. LANDRUM MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 918
- PALM VALLEY ACADEMY3.0 mi · 1,408
- PONTE VEDRA HIGH SCHOOL3.2 mi · 1,924
- PONTE VEDRA PALM VALLEY- RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.8 mi · 940
- VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY5.7 mi · 1,178
- ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL6.4 mi · 2,177
Frequently asked questions
About OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 386 students in grades PK-05.
Is OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 77% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
OCEAN PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of ST. JOHNS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.