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SABAL POINT 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 83 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 up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SABAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a large K-5 school in LONGWOOD, Florida, SABAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL hosts 923 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within SEMINOLE. That puts it 53% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.
SABAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 74 schools operated by SEMINOLE, a district that teaches 63,934 students overall.
Looking at the student body, SABAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Seminole County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SABAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 64.1%; this one delivers 80.3%, a residual of +16.2 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Seminole County shows median household income runs about $85,761, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. SABAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 77 public schools in Seminole County (combined enrollment of about 63,934 students).
Nearest neighbor: LAKE BRANTLEY HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SABAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.0%.
SABAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.
Five-year trend. SABAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 897 (now 923). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 60% to 52%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the SABAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
Seminole County at a glance
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