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STEWART STREET 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 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a small K-5 school in QUINCY, Florida, STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 453 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within GADSDEN. That puts it 25% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.
GADSDEN runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 4,633 students. STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Gadsden County as a whole is about 53% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.0%, the actual is 28.0%, a residual of -11.1 points.
In the area at large, Gadsden County reports that median household income runs about $48,801, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 22% of residents live below the federal poverty line. STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 17 public schools in Gadsden County (combined enrollment of about 4,633 students).
The closest other public school is GADSDEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 32%: 671 students in 2018 compared to 453 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Gadsden County at a glance
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