SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in PAISLEY, Florida, SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL works with 606 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by LAKE.

Within LAKE, which oversees 60 schools and 47,997 students, SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL shows that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 65% of students at SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lake County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Lake County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,161 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Lake County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,997 students), of which SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is HOPE FOREST ACADEMY, roughly 4.5 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area. As a public charter, SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 612 (now 606). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 85% to 80%. Class-load math has widened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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