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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
1,007
Elementary
DISTRICT 625 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARION·NCES 120126003613
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3700 SW 43RD CT, OCALA, FL 34474 · (352) 291-4075 · Marion County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,007 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
556 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 | 29 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 135 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 151 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 152 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 176 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 167 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 197 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (135) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (197).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
49.9%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.2pp since 2023
Math
56.2%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 | 49.9% | 56.2% |
| 2023-24 | 54.1% | 58.2% |
% 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
52.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (52.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 1,007 | 55.2% | 52.4% |
| CHAIN OF LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINTER HAVEN | 1,007 | 55.6% | 60.1% |
| SUMMERFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RIVERVIEW | 901 | 52.4% | 47.3% |
| OAKLEAF VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 1,022 | 57.0% | 60.9% |
| CITRUS COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOYNTON BEACH | 1,137 | 48.7% | 62.7% |
| DUVAL CHARTER AT BAYMEADOWS JACKSONVILLE | 1,399 | 52.7% | 58.0% |
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 SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Marion County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.4% | #1,213 of 2,136 | #9 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.2% | #1,273 of 2,149 ▼ 261 | #11 of 32 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.9% | #1,310 of 2,149 ▼ 340 | #11 of 32 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,007 | #192 of 2,267 | #4 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #1,785 of 2,077 | #28 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.7% | #61 of 2,108 | #2 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.2% | #1,075 of 2,188 | #25 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.7% | #248 of 621 | #8 of 19 |
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
1,007
+134 (+15%) vs 2020
+41% since 2000-01, when it was 712
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 1,007 | 54 | 18.6:1 | 55% (556) |
| 2023-24 | 1,000 | 53 | 18.9:1 | 56% (561) |
| 2022-23 | 917 | 52 | 17.6:1 | 58% (528) |
| 2020-21 | 873 | 57 | 15.3:1 | 53% (466) |
| 2017-18 | 870 | 57 | 15.3:1 | 56% (490) |
| 2015-16 | 838 | 54 | 15.5:1 | 56% (472) |
| 2010-11 | 730 | 51 | 14.3:1 | 64% (465) |
| 2000-01 | 712 | 41 | 17.4:1 | 71% (503) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Federal records list SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as an elementary school in OCALA, Florida. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 1,007 students in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average enrollment is about 604.
MARION runs 62 schools with a combined 46,349 students. SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
No group is above 50% at SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the largest is Hispanic, at 35%. The school is also 29% White, 24% Black, 7% multiracial, and 5% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 17%. The diversity index for SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 73%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 18.6:1. Elementary schools in Florida have an average ratio of 17.5:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 55%. That is in line with the 57% average for public schools in Marion County.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's results are 1.1 points below predicted: 52.4% against 53.5%.
For Marion County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $61,010 a year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Marion County has 68 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 1.9 miles from SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Federal data place SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the Suburb: Mid-size locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 1,007, from 873 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.3:1 in 2020-21, and 18.6:1 in 2024-25.
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Marion County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
400,078
Census ACS
Median income
$61,010
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
46,349 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MARION
- WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,022 students
- FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,387 students
- BELLEVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,904 students
- VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,684 students
- BELLEVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,600 students
- DUNNELLON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,562 students
Other schools in OCALA
- WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,022 students
- FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,387 students
- VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,684 students
- LAKE WEIR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,447 students
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,402 students
- HORIZON ACADEMY AT MARION OAKSMiddle · 1,260 students
Other Saddlewood Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Saddlewood Elementary. SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLALBANY, NY · 351 students
Nearby schools
- COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 873
- INA A.COLEN ACADEMY2.4 mi · 546
- DR N H JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.2 mi · 789
- MCSO ADULTS3.3 mi · 10
- WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL3.3 mi · 3,022
- MARION REG. JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER3.4 mi · 94
Frequently asked questions
About SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,007 students in grades PK-05.
Is SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 18.6:1 (54 FTE teachers).
How diverse is SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 29% White, 35% Hispanic, 24% Black, 5% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by MARION in Marion County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.