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What's one thing SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
615
Elementary
DISTRICT 722 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUWANNEE·NCES 120183001945
SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY
1419 WALKER AVE SW, LIVE OAK, FL 32064 · (386) 647-4700 · Suwannee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL615 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest 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
17.1:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
395 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 49 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
54.3%
FL avg 56.7% . -1.9pp since 2023
Math
67.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.3% | 67.5% |
| 2023-24 | 56.2% | 66.7% |
% 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
61.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY
SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY's state test result (61.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY this school | 615 | 64.2% | 61.1% |
| COPPERGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIDDLEBURG | 587 | 63.7% | 51.4% |
| PORT MALABAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BAY | 628 | 63.9% | 53.0% |
| OCALA SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 682 | 64.4% | 51.0% |
| PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT CHARLOTTE | 557 | 63.2% | 38.6% |
| RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 592 | 66.0% | 59.2% |
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 SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #813 of 2,136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #754 of 2,149 ▼ 83 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #1,096 of 2,149 ▼ 211 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 615 | #976 of 2,267 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #1,463 of 2,077 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.7% | #713 of 2,108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.2% | #726 of 2,188 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.4% | #691 of 1,374 |
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
615
+90 (+17%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 828
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 615 | 35.9 | 17.1:1 | 64% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 619 | 34.9 | 17.8:1 | 76% (470) |
| 2022-23 | 574 | 32.9 | 17.5:1 | 76% (434) |
| 2020-21 | 525 | 31 | 16.9:1 | 71% (373) |
| 2017-18 | 727 | 39 | 18.6:1 | 83% (605) |
| 2015-16 | 704 | 40 | 17.6:1 | 53% (372) |
| 2010-11 | 734 | 41 | 17.9:1 | 74% (545) |
| 2000-01 | 910 | 47 | 19.4:1 | 61% (554) |
| 1990-91 | 828 | 43 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY.
About SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY
SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY is a mid-sized elementary school based in LIVE OAK, Florida. It had 615 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5.
SUWANNEE is the district for SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY. It has 10 schools and 6,004 students.
The largest group at SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY is White students, at 53%. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 17% Black, and 5% multiracial. By comparison, Suwannee County residents are about 74% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY scores 63%.
On staff are 35.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.1:1. That is in line with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 64%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY outscored 73%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY falls in the middle 80% of Florida schools: 61.1% actual against 49.0% predicted.
Suwannee County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $56,658, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Suwannee County's 13 public schools enroll about 6,004 students and include SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY.
About 0.2 miles separate SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY from the closest public school, SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes 7 other public schools. Local comparison: SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY ranks 1st of 5 nearby schools, at 61.1% versus a 50.2% average.
NCES assigns SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY the locale Town: Remote, meaning in a town far from an urbanized area.
A 17% rise took enrollment from 525 in 2020-21 to 615 in 2024-25.
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Suwannee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
45,342
Census ACS
Median income
$56,658
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
6,004 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SUWANNEE
- SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,167 students
- SUWANNEE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 971 students
- SUWANNEE RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 901 students
- BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 799 students
- BRANFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 712 students
- SUWANNEE PINEVIEW ELEMENTARYElementary · 658 students
Other schools in LIVE OAK
- SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,167 students
- SUWANNEE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 971 students
- SUWANNEE RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 901 students
- SUWANNEE PINEVIEW ELEMENTARYElementary · 658 students
- SUWANNEE VIRTUAL SCHOOLCombined · 98 students
- SUWANNEE OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLCombined · 66 students
Nearby schools
- SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,167
- SUWANNEE RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY0.3 mi · 901
- SUWANNEE OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 66
- SUWANNEE VIRTUAL SCHOOL0.3 mi · 98
- SUWANNEE PINEVIEW ELEMENTARY0.5 mi · 658
- COMMUNITY BASE SERVICE STUDENTS0.5 mi · 17
Frequently asked questions
About SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARYHow many students attend SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY?
SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 615 students in grades PK-05.
Is SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY is approximately 17.1:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY are roughly 53% White, 24% Hispanic, 17% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY public or private?
SUWANNEE SPRINGCREST ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by SUWANNEE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.