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SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier primary school in SPRING HILL, Florida, part of HERNANDO, hosts 829 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 37% above that benchmark.
Across the 29 schools in HERNANDO (23,734 students total), SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 38% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hernando County (around 53%), the school's rate is north of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of +0.6 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Hernando County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,058 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 31 public schools in Hernando County (combined enrollment of about 23,734 students).
The closest other public school is CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH, roughly 1.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.
SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.
Over the past 7-year window. SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 834 (now 829). Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 38% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.
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