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RAINBOW 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 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 86% 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 23 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in WINTER SPRINGS, Florida, RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized primary school, operated by SEMINOLE. It teaches 729 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 21% bigger than typical.
Across the 74 schools in SEMINOLE (63,934 students total), RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, 5% Asian. By comparison, Seminole County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 35% of students at RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Seminole County's rate of about 47%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 63.6%; this one delivers 86.4%, a residual of +22.8 points.
Around the school, Seminole County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,761, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Seminole County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,934 students), RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
TUSKAWILLA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 66.1%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 735 students in 2018 to 729 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 51% across the same window.
In the discussion threads here, members of the RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Seminole County at a glance
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