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What's one thing SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
574
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159001776
SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
321 DR JA WILTSHIRE AVE E, LAKE WALES, FL 33853 · (863) 678-4262 · Polk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL574 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% of Florida public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
16.9:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
479 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 | 39 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
68%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
29.6%
FL avg 56.7% . -11.7pp since 2023
Math
35.6%
FL avg 58.9% . -4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.6% | 35.6% |
| 2023-24 | 41.4% | 40.1% |
% 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
40.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (40.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 574 | 83.4% | 40.2% |
| PHILIP O'BRIEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 625 | 80.3% | 29.7% |
| FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEBRING | 576 | 80.2% | 46.7% |
| CLARENCE BOSWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURNDALE | 600 | 79.2% | 49.1% |
| SOCRUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 523 | 81.3% | 45.3% |
| S BRYAN JENNINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 492 | 79.9% | 57.0% |
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 SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.2% | #1,797 of 2,136 | #62 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #2,021 of 2,149 ▼ 199 | #78 of 86 ▼ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #2,074 of 2,149 ▼ 495 | #84 of 86 ▼ 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 574 | #1,125 of 2,267 | #48 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #1,395 of 2,077 | #37 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.1% | #346 of 2,108 | #22 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.4% | #88 of 2,188 | #2 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.7% | #859 of 1,374 | #16 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
574
+50 (+10%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 485
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 574 | 34 | 16.9:1 | 83% (479) |
| 2023-24 | 547 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 83% (456) |
| 2022-23 | 584 | 35 | 16.7:1 | 67% (393) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 37 | 14.2:1 | 77% (403) |
| 2017-18 | 650 | 47 | 13.8:1 | 72% (469) |
| 2015-16 | 642 | 42 | 15.3:1 | 77% (495) |
| 2010-11 | 576 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 78% (448) |
| 2000-01 | 623 | 36 | 17.3:1 | 60% (374) |
| 1990-91 | 485 | 29 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL runs as a medium-sized elementary school in LAKE WALES, Florida. It enrolled 574 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Across its 163 schools, POLK enrolls 116,552 students. SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 36%. Other students are 35% White, 25% Black, and 3% multiracial. SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 68%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL total 34 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 16.9:1. Elementary schools in Florida have a similar average ratio of 17.5:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 83% of enrollment. The 65% average for public schools in Polk County is 18 points lower.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is within a point of its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
Within Polk County, median household income is about $65,978, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Polk County number 172 and enroll about 117,004.
The closest other public school is EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 46.0% on proficiency, and SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is below that at 40.2%.
SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL went from 524 students to 574. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.2:1 in 2020-21, and 16.9:1 in 2024-25.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in POLK
- HAINES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,105 students
- DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,731 students
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,648 students
- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,276 students
Other schools in LAKE WALES
- LAKE WALES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,597 students
- MCLAUGHLIN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCEHigh · 758 students
- EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTHMiddle · 726 students
- HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 667 students
- BOK ACADEMYMiddle · 640 students
- POLK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
Nearby schools
- EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH0.3 mi · 726
- VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY0.3 mi · 321
- LAKE WALES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,597
- ROOSEVELT ACADEMY0.7 mi · 279
- JANIE HOWARD WILSON SCHOOL0.8 mi · 462
- POLK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 523
Frequently asked questions
About SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 574 students in grades PK-05.
Is SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.9:1 students per teacher at SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 35% White, 36% Hispanic, 25% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by POLK in Polk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.