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Enrollment
399
Elementary
DISTRICT 669 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO·NCES 120153001562
RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
37615 MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD, DADE CITY, FL 33523 · (352) 524-5100 · Pasco County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of Florida public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
16.0:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
301 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 50%
Community
1
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 | 90 | 23% |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
37.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +13.9pp since 2023
Math
45.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +16.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.2% | 45.5% |
| 2023-24 | 23.3% | 29.1% |
% 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
34.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (34.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 399 | 75.4% | 34.0% |
| DEERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 422 | 73.5% | 37.9% |
| EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEWISTON | 477 | 78.0% | 59.7% |
| WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEWISTON | 480 | 77.5% | 57.9% |
| JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLANT CITY | 451 | 73.2% | 30.7% |
| BURNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLANT CITY | 357 | 74.2% | 35.6% |
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 RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pasco County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #2,002 of 2,136 | #51 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #1,744 of 2,149 ▲ 335 | #41 of 60 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #1,884 of 2,149 ▲ 230 | #50 of 60 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #1,772 of 2,267 | #54 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #1,104 of 2,077 | #43 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.4% | #1,063 of 2,108 | #45 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.4% | #267 of 2,188 | #5 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.6% | #512 of 1,374 | #6 of 27 |
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
399
-48 (-11%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 508
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 399 | 25 | 16.0:1 | 75% (301) |
| 2023-24 | 407 | 26 | 15.7:1 | 85% (346) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 26 | 16.5:1 | 97% (417) |
| 2020-21 | 447 | 31 | 14.4:1 | 92% (411) |
| 2017-18 | 496 | 33 | 15.0:1 | 99% (492) |
| 2015-16 | 469 | 38 | 12.3:1 | 96% (451) |
| 2010-11 | 458 | 39 | 11.7:1 | 95% (436) |
| 2000-01 | 523 | 45 | 11.6:1 | 99% (517) |
| 1990-91 | 508 | 47 | 10.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the public schools in DADE CITY, Florida. It is a low-enrollment elementary school. Federal data show 399 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Florida enroll around 604, and this school is 34% below that mark.
Enrollment across the 105 schools in PASCO totals 86,873 students.
The largest group at RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic students, at 61%. Other students are 22% Black, 13% White, and 4% multiracial. By comparison, Pasco County residents are about 19% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 56%.
There are about 16.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which has 25. The school's 16.0:1 compares with an average of 17.5:1 for elementary schools in Florida. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 75%. That rate is above the 37% average among public schools in Pasco County.
On the allk12 Grade, RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at D, ahead of 8% of Florida public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 34.0%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 43.4%.
The county, Pasco County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $70,492 a year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Pasco County has 111 public schools.
RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's nearest public school is PASCO MIDDLE SCHOOL (about 0.6 miles). In all, 6 other public schools sit within five miles of RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Locale: Town: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in a town close to an urbanized area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had a net loss of 48 students, or 11%. By 2024-25, the school had 16.0 students per teacher, compared with 14.4 in 2020-21.
On allk12, people connected to RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Pasco County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
611,444
Census ACS
Median income
$70,492
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
86,873 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PASCO
- LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,233 students
- WIREGRASS RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,218 students
- SUNLAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,206 students
- JAMES W. MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,201 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,006 students
- WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,928 students
Other schools in DADE CITY
- PASCO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,523 students
- PASCO MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 819 students
- ACADEMY AT THE FARMElementary · 761 students
- SAN ANTONIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 706 students
- CENTENNIAL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 688 students
- CENTENNIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 684 students
Nearby schools
- PASCO MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 819
- PASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 639
- PASCO HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 1,523
- EAST PASCO EDUCATION ACADEMY2.5 mi · 80
- CENTENNIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL4.5 mi · 688
- CENTENNIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.6 mi · 684
Frequently asked questions
About RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 399 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 13% White, 61% Hispanic, 22% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
RODNEY B. COX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PASCO.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.