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How has W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
652
Elementary
DISTRICT 671 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAY·NCES 120030000322
W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
420 EDSON DR, ORANGE PARK, FL 32073 · (904) 336-3975 · Clay County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL652 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
487 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 | 45 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 99 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 98 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 26% smaller than its 6th grade class (98).
Student demographics
72%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
62.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.4pp since 2023
Math
66.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.2pp 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 66 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 6 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 | 62.2% | 66.1% |
| 2023-24 | 55.8% | 65.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
60.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (60.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 652 | 74.7% | 60.7% |
| EMERALD SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 696 | 71.7% | 36.3% |
| GARDEN GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINTER HAVEN | 652 | 74.4% | 48.9% |
| JOHN F. TURNER SENIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BAY | 600 | 72.2% | 39.1% |
| SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SOUTH DAYTONA | 794 | 72.3% | 44.8% |
| SATURN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COCOA | 619 | 73.5% | 39.0% |
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 W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Clay County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.7% | #834 of 2,136 | #14 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.1% | #819 of 2,149 ▼ 113 | #10 of 29 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #738 of 2,149 ▲ 167 | #13 of 29 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 652 | #864 of 2,267 | #16 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #2 of 2,077 | #1 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.0% | #83 of 2,108 | #5 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.7% | #287 of 2,188 | #5 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.2% | #881 of 1,374 | #9 of 15 |
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
652
-20 (-3%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 759
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 652 | 63.4 | 10.3:1 | 75% (487) |
| 2023-24 | 640 | 61 | 10.5:1 | 72% (462) |
| 2022-23 | 641 | 63 | 10.2:1 | 100% (641) |
| 2020-21 | 672 | 62 | 10.8:1 | 53% (354) |
| 2017-18 | 734 | 66 | 11.1:1 | 66% (484) |
| 2015-16 | 625 | 60 | 10.4:1 | 60% (374) |
| 2010-11 | 659 | 59 | 11.2:1 | 71% (465) |
| 2000-01 | 1,001 | 52 | 19.3:1 | 32% (317) |
| 1990-91 | 759 | 41 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located in ORANGE PARK, Florida, is a mid-sized elementary school. The school teaches pre-K through 6 and enrolls 652 students.
CLAY enrolls 39,116 students in 50 schools, including W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
At W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, White students make up the biggest share, 38%. Enrollment also includes 25% Black, 25% Hispanic, and 10% multiracial. Among people living in Clay County, the White share is about 70%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.
Classroom staffing at W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL totals 63.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 75%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Clay County is 54%.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida schools. It scores 60.7%; the prediction is 43.7%.
American Community Survey estimates for Clay County show that the median household earns about $87,820 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Clay County has 55 public schools with about 38,806 students, including W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, ORANGE PARK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.6 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 2nd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 672 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 652.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 ORANGE PARK
- OAKLEAF HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,307 students
- ORANGE PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,844 students
- RIDGEVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,792 students
- FLEMING ISLAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,765 students
- OAKLEAF VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,022 students
- DISCOVERY OAKS ELEMENTARYElementary · 915 students
Nearby schools
- ORANGE PARK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 832
- S BRYAN JENNINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 492
- ORANGE PARK HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,844
- ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK1.0 mi · 405
- CLAY VIRTUAL FRANCHISE1.1 mi · 107
- MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 402
Frequently asked questions
About W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 652 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 38% White, 25% Hispanic, 25% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
W E CHERRY 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.