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RYMFIRE 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 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in PALM COAST, Florida, RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a well-populated elementary campus, run under FLAGLER. It enrolls 967 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 60% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 11 schools in FLAGLER (13,521 students total), RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Hispanic, 15% Black, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.
In terms of school funding signals, RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Flagler County's rate of about 38%.
With demographic context factored in, RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 57.2%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Flagler County) records that median household earnings sit near $77,363, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Flagler County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,521 students), of which RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
BUNNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.
RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,054 (now 967). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 16% to 27%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.
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