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Enrollment
740
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159004440
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1400 GILBERT ST, EAGLE LAKE, FL 33839 · (863) 298-7977 · Polk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL740 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
540 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 | 35 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 123 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 134 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (109) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (134).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
45.0%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.3pp since 2023
Math
45.6%
FL avg 58.9% . -7.2pp since 2023
What 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 46 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 are down about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 45.6% |
| 2023-24 | 47.4% | 52.8% |
% 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
46.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (46.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 740 | 73.0% | 46.9% |
| LEGACY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 753 | 71.0% | 32.8% |
| EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAGLE LAKE | 644 | 75.2% | 30.4% |
| SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY WINTER HAVEN | 689 | 68.8% | 46.0% |
| WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURNDALE | 887 | 72.7% | 50.6% |
| GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 720 | 68.5% | 45.1% |
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 PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.9% | #1,486 of 2,136 | #41 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.6% | #1,741 of 2,149 ▼ 481 | #54 of 86 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,541 of 2,149 ▼ 248 | #44 of 86 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 740 | #596 of 2,267 | #26 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #1,490 of 2,077 | #41 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.5% | #386 of 2,108 | #28 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.0% | #345 of 2,188 | #39 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.6% | #226 of 621 | #15 of 35 |
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
740
+78 (+12%) vs 2020
+31% since 2000-01, when it was 565
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 740 | 43 | 17.2:1 | 73% (540) |
| 2023-24 | 692 | 44 | 15.7:1 | 70% (483) |
| 2022-23 | 709 | 41 | 17.3:1 | 53% (375) |
| 2020-21 | 662 | 41 | 16.1:1 | 61% (407) |
| 2017-18 | 629 | 42 | 15.0:1 | 63% (396) |
| 2015-16 | 692 | 44 | 15.7:1 | 66% (460) |
| 2010-11 | 627 | 43 | 14.6:1 | 81% (505) |
| 2000-01 | 565 | 31 | 18.2:1 | 54% (306) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students in EAGLE LAKE, Florida, attend PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school. It has an enrollment of 740 students in pre-K through 5. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average enrollment is about 604.
POLK (163 schools, 116,552 students) runs PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
The largest racial or ethnic group at PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic, with 42% of students. Next come 29% White, 26% Black, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 29% Hispanic. The diversity index for PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 68%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 17.2 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which has 43. The average ratio among elementary schools in Florida is similar, at 17.5:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 73%. That rate is above the 65% average among public schools in Polk County.
On BeatsExpectations, PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 2.3 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
The county, Polk County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $65,978, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The county has 172 public schools and about 117,004 students.
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is LAKE REGION HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles of PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 1st of 8 on proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The school's student count increased 12% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The number of students per teacher increased from 16.1 to 17.2 over 4 years.
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Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
790,694
Census ACS
Median income
$65,978
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
172
117,004 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POLK
- HAINES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,105 students
- DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,731 students
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,648 students
- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,276 students
Other schools in EAGLE LAKE
- LAKE REGION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,568 students
- EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 644 students
Other Pinewood Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 10 states are named Pinewood Elementary. PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 17.
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSTUART, FL · 658 students
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNORTH LAUDERDALE, FL · 551 students
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIMS, FL · 500 students
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARYORLANDO, FL · 497 students
- Pinewood ElementaryMONTICELLO, MN · 794 students
Nearby schools
- LAKE REGION HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,568
- JOHN SNIVELY ELEMENTARY0.6 mi · 396
- LAKE SHIPP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 576
- EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 644
- WAHNETA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 491
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 2,648
Frequently asked questions
About PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 740 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 29% White, 42% Hispanic, 26% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by POLK.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.