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QUAIL HOLLOW 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 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 QUAIL HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
QUAIL HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in ZEPHYRHILLS, Florida, overseen by PASCO, with 559 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 105 schools in PASCO (86,873 students total), QUAIL HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, QUAIL HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 39% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pasco County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), QUAIL HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.2%; this one delivers 48.8%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Pasco County put median household earnings sit near $70,492, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Pasco County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students), of which QUAIL HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around QUAIL HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, QUAIL HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Over the past 7-year window. QUAIL HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 483 (now 559). The White share of enrollment contracted from 59% to 41% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.
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Pasco County at a glance
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