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Enrollment
765
Elementary
DISTRICT 687 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SANTA ROSA·NCES 120165002258
ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1260 ORIOLE BEACH RD, GULF BREEZE, FL 32563 · (850) 934-5160 · Santa Rosa County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL765 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of Florida public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15.0:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
264 students
DISTRICT 48% · 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 | 3 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 114 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 116 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 123 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 137 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 134 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 138 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (114) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (138).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
75.6%
FL avg 56.7% . -1.5pp since 2023
Math
84.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.6% | 84.6% |
| 2023-24 | 77.1% | 84.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
78.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (78.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 765 | 34.5% | 78.2% |
| TAYLOR RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VENICE | 844 | 32.6% | 77.3% |
| WEST NAVARRE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL NAVARRE | 739 | 37.2% | 70.6% |
| LEWIS CARROLL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MERRITT ISLAND | 634 | 37.1% | 76.6% |
| OAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LARGO | 677 | 30.7% | 75.2% |
| VENICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VENICE | 616 | 37.5% | 78.8% |
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 ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Santa Rosa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.2% | #218 of 2,136 | #2 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.6% | #158 of 2,149 ▼ 30 | #2 of 15 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.6% | #265 of 2,149 ▼ 84 | #3 of 15 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 765 | #542 of 2,267 | #9 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #693 of 2,077 | #8 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.3% | #1,656 of 2,108 | #13 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.5% | #1,711 of 2,188 | #16 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.5% | #871 of 1,374 | #7 of 11 |
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
765
+51 (+7%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 805
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 765 | 51 | 15.0:1 | 35% (264) |
| 2023-24 | 771 | 49 | 15.7:1 | 36% (278) |
| 2022-23 | 799 | 56 | 14.3:1 | 32% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 714 | 54 | 13.2:1 | 27% (194) |
| 2017-18 | 864 | 69 | 12.5:1 | 38% (329) |
| 2015-16 | 817 | 60 | 13.6:1 | 40% (326) |
| 2010-11 | 765 | 55 | 13.9:1 | 38% (294) |
| 2000-01 | 879 | 51 | 17.2:1 | 19% (171) |
| 1990-91 | 805 | 43 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the public schools in GULF BREEZE, Florida. It is a mid-sized elementary school. There are 765 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Florida enroll around 604, and this school is 27% above that mark.
SANTA ROSA counts 29,643 students in its 38 schools, and ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
At ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 76% of students are White. It is also 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black, and 2% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 40%.
There are about 15.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which has 51. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 2.5 more students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 35%. The rate at public schools in Santa Rosa County averages 44%, higher than here.
On the allk12 Grade, ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 93% of Florida public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the top 10% of Florida schools: 78.2% actual against 63.9% predicted.
In Santa Rosa County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $91,922, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county has 42 public schools and about 29,382 students.
PENSACOLA BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC is the nearest public school to ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 3.4 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number 4. The nearest schools with test data average 74.8%, lower than ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 78.2%.
For locale, NCES codes ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Suburb: Mid-size.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 765, up from 714 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher increased from 13.2 to 15.0 over 4 years.
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Santa Rosa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
198,472
Census ACS
Median income
$91,922
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
29,382 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SANTA ROSA
- NAVARRE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,410 students
- PACE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,316 students
- MILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,985 students
- GULF BREEZE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,946 students
- EAST BAY K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,100 students
- WALLACE LAKE K-8Elementary · 1,061 students
Other schools in GULF BREEZE
- GULF BREEZE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,946 students
- EAST BAY K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,100 students
- GULF BREEZE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 916 students
- WOODLAWN BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 882 students
- GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 865 students
- SOUTHEND HIGH SCHOOLCombined
Nearby schools
- PENSACOLA BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC3.4 mi · 115
- GULF BREEZE HIGH SCHOOL4.7 mi · 1,946
- GULF BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.7 mi · 865
- GULF BREEZE MIDDLE SCHOOL4.8 mi · 916
- WOODLAWN BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL5.1 mi · 882
- A. K. SUTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.0 mi · 500
Frequently asked questions
About ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 765 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1.
What is the student diversity at ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 76% White, 10% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SANTA ROSA in Santa Rosa County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.