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Enrollment
625
Elementary
DISTRICT 669 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO·NCES 120153001567
WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
37900 14TH AVE, ZEPHYRHILLS, FL 33542 · (813) 794-6300 · Pasco County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL625 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Florida public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
15.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
417 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 47 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (108).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
29.5%
FL avg 56.7% . -3.8pp since 2023
Math
26.6%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.5% | 26.6% |
| 2023-24 | 33.3% | 28.2% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
31.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (31.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 625 | 66.7% | 31.7% |
| FORT BRADEN SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 668 | 65.6% | 34.8% |
| GULF TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLIDAY | 625 | 69.0% | 44.4% |
| HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE WALES | 667 | 69.1% | 60.0% |
| CITRUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VERO BEACH | 630 | 64.9% | 60.0% |
| BELLEVIEW-SANTOS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLEVIEW | 663 | 63.2% | 39.5% |
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 WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pasco County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.7% | #2,044 of 2,136 | #53 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #2,128 of 2,149 ▼ 31 | #57 of 60 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.5% | #2,075 of 2,149 ▼ 152 | #58 of 60 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 625 | #943 of 2,267 | #31 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #888 of 2,077 | #33 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.4% | #394 of 2,108 | #16 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #597 of 2,188 | #14 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.7% | #260 of 1,374 | #2 of 27 |
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
625
-53 (-8%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 820
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 625 | 40.5 | 15.4:1 | 67% (417) |
| 2023-24 | 621 | 39.8 | 15.6:1 | 77% (476) |
| 2022-23 | 615 | 40.1 | 15.3:1 | 81% (499) |
| 2020-21 | 678 | 50 | 13.6:1 | 79% (539) |
| 2017-18 | 865 | 61 | 14.2:1 | 88% (762) |
| 2015-16 | 855 | 60 | 14.3:1 | 87% (746) |
| 2010-11 | 810 | 75 | 10.8:1 | 77% (621) |
| 2000-01 | 822 | 49 | 16.8:1 | 67% (551) |
| 1990-91 | 820 | 43 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school located in ZEPHYRHILLS, Florida. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 625 students on the rolls.
Across its 105 schools, PASCO enrolls 86,873 students. WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
No group is above 50% at WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the largest is White, at 45%. Other reported shares: 31% Hispanic, 14% Black, and 9% multiracial. Pasco County's residents are about 72% White, 27 points above the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 67%.
WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 40.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1. At WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 67% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is higher than the 37% average for public schools in Pasco County.
WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 3% of Florida public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations places WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the bottom 10% of Florida schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 16.0 points below it (31.7% actual, 47.7% predicted).
Looking at the county, Pasco County, the median household earns about $70,492 a year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's public schools total 111, with about 86,873 students.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, RAYMOND B. STEWART MIDDLE SCHOOL, is the closest to WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 8th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Small in federal locale data.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 625, from 678 in 2020-21. The school's ratio increased from 13.6:1 to 15.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Pasco County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
611,444
Census ACS
Median income
$70,492
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
86,873 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PASCO
- LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,233 students
- WIREGRASS RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,218 students
- SUNLAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,206 students
- JAMES W. MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,201 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,006 students
- WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,928 students
Other schools in ZEPHYRHILLS
- ZEPHYRHILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,656 students
- RAYMOND B. STEWART MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 954 students
- WOODLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 792 students
- CHESTER W. TAYLOR JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 676 students
- QUAIL HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 559 students
Nearby schools
- RAYMOND B. STEWART MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 954
- WOODLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 792
- ZEPHYRHILLS HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,656
- CHESTER W. TAYLOR JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.9 mi · 676
- CENTENNIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.5 mi · 684
- CENTENNIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL4.6 mi · 688
Frequently asked questions
About WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 625 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
What is the student diversity at WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 45% White, 31% Hispanic, 14% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
WEST ZEPHYRHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PASCO.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.