WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a moderately sized primary school in WESLEY CHAPEL, Florida, one of the schools within PASCO, serves 859 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 42% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 105 schools in PASCO (86,873 students total), WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 31% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Pasco County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.5%, the actual is 53.4%, a residual of -12.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pasco County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $70,492 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 111 public schools in Pasco County (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students).

The closest other public school is INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 38%: 621 students in 2018 compared to 859 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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