RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 4000 RED BUG LAKE RD, in CASSELBERRY, Florida, RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that caters to 811 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by SEMINOLE. Enrollment runs roughly 34% larger than the state mean of about 604.

Across the 74 schools in SEMINOLE (63,934 students total), RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 40% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.8%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Seminole County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,761 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 77 public schools in Seminole County (combined enrollment of about 63,934 students).

LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 63.7%.

RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 829 students in 2018 compared to 811 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 58% to 42%.

In the discussion threads here, members of the RED BUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.