PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in SANFORD, Florida, part of SEMINOLE, caters to 714 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 74 schools operated by SEMINOLE, a district that teaches 63,934 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 29% Black, 16% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Seminole County (around 47%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 34.4%; PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 50.7%, +16.4 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Seminole County indicate median household earnings sit near $85,761, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Seminole County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,934 students), of which PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.

PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 709 students in 2018 compared to 714 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 32% to 49%.

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