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Alumni: what's one memory from SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
588
Elementary
DISTRICT 504 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HIGHLANDS·NCES 120084002504
SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4515 PONCE DE LEON BLVD, SEBRING, FL 33872 · (863) 471-5464 · Highlands County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL588 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Florida public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
17.8:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
370 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 124 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (124).
Student demographics
71%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
61.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
70.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.9% | 70.4% |
| 2023-24 | 59.5% | 63.8% |
% 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
63.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (63.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 588 | 62.9% | 63.0% |
| FRONTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEARWATER | 542 | 61.1% | 62.1% |
| VERO BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VERO BEACH | 593 | 68.3% | 56.0% |
| RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BAY | 718 | 59.2% | 57.0% |
| WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELAND | 532 | 63.2% | 51.3% |
| SAWGRASS LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG | 573 | 59.2% | 59.9% |
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 SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Highlands County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #729 of 2,136 | #3 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.4% | #635 of 2,149 ▲ 155 | #3 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #750 of 2,149 ▼ 11 | #2 of 9 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 588 | #1,068 of 2,267 | #4 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #1,650 of 2,077 | #9 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.3% | #124 of 2,108 | #1 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.9% | #797 of 2,188 | #9 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.8% | #581 of 1,374 | N/A |
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
588
-18 (-3%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 753
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 588 | 33 | 17.8:1 | 63% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 590 | 33 | 17.9:1 | 76% (449) |
| 2022-23 | 618 | 32 | 19.3:1 | 67% (414) |
| 2020-21 | 606 | 36 | 16.8:1 | 62% (374) |
| 2017-18 | 715 | 44 | 16.3:1 | 72% (513) |
| 2015-16 | 767 | 44 | 17.4:1 | 76% (582) |
| 2010-11 | 690 | 46 | 15.0:1 | 65% (446) |
| 2000-01 | 827 | 50 | 16.5:1 | 53% (441) |
| 1990-91 | 753 | 44 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school run by HIGHLANDS in SEBRING, Florida. There are 588 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5.
HIGHLANDS is the district for SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It has 22 schools and 12,040 students.
The student body at SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has no majority group. White students lead at 35%. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 24% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The county population is about 68% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a ratio of 17.8:1. It is about the same as the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Income data for the school show 63% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 63% average for public schools in Highlands County.
SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 77% of Florida public elementary schools.
The model predicts 49.6% for a school in Florida with SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 63.0%.
Highlands County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $54,897, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Highlands County's 24 public schools enroll about 12,040 students and include SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Among nearby public schools, MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest at about 1.3 miles. In all, 7 other public schools sit within five miles of SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Small.
The school shrank from 606 students in 2020-21 to 588 in 2024-25.
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Highlands County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
105,702
Census ACS
Median income
$54,897
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
12,040 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HIGHLANDS
- SEBRING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,849 students
- AVON PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 980 students
- SEBRING MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 840 students
- WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 834 students
- LAKE PLACID HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 829 students
- CRACKER TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 710 students
Other schools in SEBRING
- SEBRING HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,849 students
- SEBRING MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 840 students
- WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 834 students
- CRACKER TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 710 students
- HILL-GUSTAT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 669 students
- FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 576 students
Nearby schools
- MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 466
- HILL-GUSTAT MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 669
- AVON PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL3.8 mi · 600
- AVON PARK HIGH SCHOOL4.2 mi · 980
- AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.5 mi · 503
- WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.7 mi · 834
Frequently asked questions
About SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 588 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.8:1 students per teacher at SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 35% White, 32% Hispanic, 24% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of HIGHLANDS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.