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Enrollment
762
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159001719
ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
1501 MARTIN L KING JR AVE, LAKELAND, FL 33805 · (863) 499-2810 · Polk County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL762 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest 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
14.9:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
454 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 | 15 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 103 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 44% smaller than its 8th grade class (103).
Student demographics
70%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
63.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.9pp since 2023
Math
61.5%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.5% | 61.5% |
| 2023-24 | 62.7% | 62.0% |
% 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
61.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's state test result (61.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS this school | 762 | 59.6% | 61.0% |
| LEESBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEESBURG | 843 | 61.0% | 34.0% |
| EUSTIS HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EUSTIS | 684 | 61.0% | 34.9% |
| TAVARES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAVARES | 870 | 58.4% | 48.1% |
| JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BAY | 856 | 64.1% | 46.5% |
| COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BAY | 576 | 59.7% | 47.6% |
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 ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #818 of 2,136 | #17 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.5% | #1,031 of 2,149 ▼ 164 | #22 of 86 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.5% | #682 of 2,149 ▼ 61 | #15 of 86 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 762 | #552 of 2,267 | #24 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #663 of 2,077 | #11 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #244 of 2,108 | #10 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.6% | #923 of 2,188 | #63 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.2% | #932 of 1,374 | #21 of 39 |
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
762
-3 (0%) vs 2020
+37% since 1990-91, when it was 557
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 762 | 51 | 14.9:1 | 60% (454) |
| 2023-24 | 803 | 57 | 14.1:1 | 59% (471) |
| 2022-23 | 803 | 51 | 15.8:1 | 45% (363) |
| 2020-21 | 765 | 55 | 13.9:1 | 42% (320) |
| 2017-18 | 849 | 54 | 15.7:1 | 45% (381) |
| 2015-16 | 800 | 52 | 15.4:1 | 52% (413) |
| 2010-11 | 832 | 56 | 14.9:1 | 57% (472) |
| 2000-01 | 787 | 54 | 14.6:1 | 21% (163) |
| 1990-91 | 557 | 37 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS.
About ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is an elementary school in LAKELAND, Florida, and it is part of POLK. It offers pre-K through 8 and has 762 students enrolled. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
POLK has 116,552 students in 163 schools, and ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is one of those schools.
The biggest share of students at ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, 35%, is White. Next come 33% Black, 25% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. That compares with about 56% White among all Polk County residents. The diversity index for ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is 70%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS has a ratio of 14.9:1. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is 2.5 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 60%.
On the allk12 Grade, ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS lands at B+, ahead of 70% of Florida public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 51.3% at ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 61.0%.
In the wider Polk County area, median household income comes to about $65,978, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Polk County's 172 public schools enroll about 117,004 students and include ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS.
LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY is about 0.4 miles from ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is 6th on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS as City: Mid-size.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 762, close to the 765 recorded in 2020-21. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.9:1 to 14.9:1.
The allk12 page for ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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
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- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
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- LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,985 students
- LAKE GIBSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,973 students
- KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,861 students
- MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGYHigh · 1,750 students
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- LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY0.4 mi · 512
- ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY0.7 mi · 157
- LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE ACADEMY1.1 mi · 704
- MCKEEL ACADEMY CENTRAL1.1 mi · 610
- IDEA LAKELAND1.1 mi · 452
- LAKELAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL HOUSE1.2 mi · 129
Frequently asked questions
About ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHow many students attend ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS enrolls approximately 762 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS serve?
ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS have?
ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the student diversity at ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
Student demographics at ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS are roughly 35% White, 25% Hispanic, 33% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS in?
ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is part of POLK.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.