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Enrollment
785
Elementary
DISTRICT 564 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANATEE·NCES 120123005609
ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
14705 THE MASTERS AVE, LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL 34202 · (941) 316-8245 · Manatee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL785 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of Florida public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
203 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 42 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 124 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 119 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 137 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 132 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 123 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (124) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (123).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
74.9%
FL avg 56.7% . -3.9pp since 2023
Math
83.6%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.9% | 83.6% |
| 2023-24 | 78.8% | 85.2% |
% 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
79.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (79.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 785 | 25.9% | 79.2% |
| DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CLEARWATER | 722 | 28.1% | 81.5% |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 741 | 28.2% | 82.2% |
| HAMMOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ODESSA | 690 | 23.5% | 78.8% |
| ASHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 964 | 28.0% | 84.7% |
| GENE WITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 742 | 27.9% | 80.3% |
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 ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Manatee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.2% | #187 of 2,136 | #6 of 41 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.6% | #183 of 2,149 ▼ 68 | #2 of 41 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.9% | #284 of 2,149 ▼ 141 | #6 of 41 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 785 | #504 of 2,267 | #9 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #1,339 of 2,077 | #34 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.9% | #1,235 of 2,108 | #30 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.9% | #1,900 of 2,188 | #38 of 41 |
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
785
+101 (+15%) vs 2020
+13% since 2010-11, when it was 693
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 785 | 47 | 16.7:1 | 26% (203) |
| 2023-24 | 764 | 47 | 16.3:1 | 23% (179) |
| 2022-23 | 765 | 46 | 16.6:1 | 22% (168) |
| 2020-21 | 684 | 44 | 15.6:1 | 24% (164) |
| 2017-18 | 785 | 50 | 15.7:1 | 17% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 746 | 49 | 15.2:1 | 20% (147) |
| 2010-11 | 693 | 39 | 17.8:1 | 19% (133) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school in LAKEWOOD RANCH, Florida. Enrollment totals 785 students across pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Florida enroll around 604, and this school is 30% above that mark.
MANATEE enrolls 54,215 students in 80 schools, including ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Federal enrollment data show ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 65% White. The remaining shares are 17% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 2% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 53%.
Classroom staffing at ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL totals 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.7:1. Compared with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida, this school's ratio is lower. Federal data show 26% of students (203) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Manatee County is 51%.
On the allk12 Grade, ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 91% of Florida public elementary schools.
ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 10.9 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (79.2% versus 68.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
Manatee County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $78,457, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 86 public schools in the county, enrolling about 54,208, ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 1.8 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 68.8%; ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 79.2%, ranking 2nd of 9.
The NCES locale for ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 684 to 785, a 15% increase. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.6:1 to 16.7:1.
The allk12 page for ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Manatee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
429,792
Census ACS
Median income
$78,457
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
54,208 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MANATEE
- LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,422 students
- PARRISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,266 students
- PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,185 students
- MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSHigh · 2,051 students
- MANATEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,998 students
- BRADEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,705 students
Other schools in LAKEWOOD RANCH
- GILBERT W MCNEAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
- LAKE MANATEE K-8Elementary
Nearby schools
- R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 787
- GILBERT W MCNEAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 672
- LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY3.2 mi · 1,369
- BRADEN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL3.4 mi · 797
- BRADEN RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.4 mi · 547
- LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOL4.2 mi · 2,422
Frequently asked questions
About ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 785 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.7:1 (47 FTE teachers).
How diverse is ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 65% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
ROBERT WILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MANATEE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.