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WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in WESLEY CHAPEL, Florida, WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized primary school, run under PASCO. It educates 724 students across grades pre-K through 5.
PASCO comprises 105 schools with combined enrollment of 86,873 students; WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
In terms of who attends, WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 28% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 9% multiracial, 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 72% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.1%; this one delivers 61.2%.
Around the school, Pasco County reports that median household income runs about $70,492, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 111 public schools in Pasco County (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students).
The closest other public school is WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 52.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked up 18%, going from 615 students in 2018 to 724 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 55% to 46%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.
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