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How has SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
496
Elementary
DISTRICT 671 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAY·NCES 120030004190
SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1630 WOODPECKER LN, MIDDLEBURG, FL 32068 · (904) 336-3475 · Clay County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL496 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
12.7:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
286 students
DISTRICT 54% · 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 | 41 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 65 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (65).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
53.6%
FL avg 56.7% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
53.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.4pp 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 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.6% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.6% | 52.6% |
% 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
52.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (52.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 496 | 57.7% | 52.6% |
| SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MELBOURNE | 493 | 60.6% | 68.4% |
| SUGAR MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT ORANGE | 526 | 60.8% | 58.8% |
| MOON LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 567 | 61.2% | 40.5% |
| PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE CITY | 448 | 59.4% | 65.1% |
| W. R. TOLAR K-8 SCHOOL BRISTOL | 513 | 53.0% | 60.5% |
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 SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Clay County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.6% | #1,205 of 2,136 | #24 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,420 of 2,149 ▼ 153 | #26 of 29 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #1,126 of 2,149 ▼ 180 | #23 of 29 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 496 | #1,438 of 2,267 | #24 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #106 of 2,077 | #12 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.2% | #1,123 of 2,108 | #19 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.7% | #995 of 2,188 | #18 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.3% | #493 of 621 | #9 of 12 |
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
496
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-8% since 2010-11, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 496 | 39 | 12.7:1 | 58% (286) |
| 2023-24 | 474 | 39 | 12.2:1 | 57% (268) |
| 2022-23 | 509 | 38 | 13.4:1 | 99% (506) |
| 2020-21 | 493 | 38 | 13.0:1 | 35% (175) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 35 | 13.7:1 | 59% (282) |
| 2015-16 | 378 | 29 | 13.0:1 | 57% (215) |
| 2010-11 | 537 | 38 | 14.1:1 | 41% (219) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students in MIDDLEBURG, Florida, attend SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small elementary school. Federal data show 496 students enrolled in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25.
SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by CLAY, whose 50 schools enroll 39,116 students.
At SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 64% of students are White. The remaining students are 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 9% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 55%.
SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 12.7:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 58% at SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 42% of Florida public elementary schools.
In Florida, SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 52.6% actual against a predicted 52.3%.
For the population of Clay County, the median household earns about $87,820 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Clay County with 54 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, ST JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY is about 1.4 miles from SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 493 in 2020-21 and 496 in 2024-25.
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Clay County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
227,584
Census ACS
Median income
$87,820
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
55
38,806 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CLAY
- OAKLEAF HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,307 students
- MIDDLEBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,866 students
- ORANGE PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,844 students
- RIDGEVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,792 students
- CLAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,776 students
- FLEMING ISLAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,765 students
Other schools in MIDDLEBURG
- MIDDLEBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,866 students
- TYNES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,047 students
- RIDEOUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 768 students
- WILKINSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
- CLAY CHARTER ACADEMYElementary · 693 students
- J.L. WILKINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 690 students
Nearby schools
- ST JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY1.4 mi · 978
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS CLAY1.8 mi · 50
- FLEMING ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 629
- DOCTORS INLET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 545
- THUNDERBOLT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 756
- FLEMING ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL2.4 mi · 1,765
Frequently asked questions
About SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 496 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 64% White, 14% Hispanic, 9% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
SWIMMING PEN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by CLAY.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.