Enrollment
132
Elementary
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEVY·NCES 120114003606
WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL
2481 NW OLD FANNIN RD, CHIEFLAND, FL 32626 · (352) 490-5799 · Levy County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL132 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of Florida public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
13.2:1
10 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
96 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 15 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 19 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 16 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 21 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 22 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 19 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 20 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (19) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (20).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
48.0%
FL avg 56.7% . -8.4pp since 2023
Math
51.7%
FL avg 58.9% . -14.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 15 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 51.7% |
| 2023-24 | 56.4% | 66.5% |
% 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
56.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL
WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (56.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 132 | 72.7% | 56.1% |
| LEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEE | 163 | 64.4% | 52.4% |
| WAKULLA COAST CHARTER SCHOOL OF ARTS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ST MARKS | 169 | 65.1% | 39.3% |
| KINDER CUB SCHOOL INC CROSS CITY | 121 | 78.5% | N/A |
| STEINHATCHEE SCHOOL STEINHATCHEE | 112 | 63.4% | 80.3% |
| MANATEE SCHOOL OF ARTS/SCIENCES BRADENTON | 111 | 72.1% | 36.5% |
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 WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Levy County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #1,043 of 2,136 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #1,471 of 2,149 ▼ 786 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,403 of 2,149 ▼ 530 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 132 | #2,169 of 2,267 | #6 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.7% | #357 of 2,188 | #1 of 6 |
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
132
+27 (+26%) vs 2020
+45% since 2000-01, when it was 91
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 132 | 10 | 13.2:1 | 73% (96) |
| 2023-24 | 117 | 9 | 13.0:1 | 74% (87) |
| 2022-23 | 126 | 8 | 15.8:1 | 77% (97) |
| 2020-21 | 105 | 8 | 13.1:1 | 75% (79) |
| 2017-18 | 118 | 11 | 10.7:1 | 72% (85) |
| 2015-16 | 104 | 10 | 10.4:1 | 81% (84) |
| 2010-11 | 133 | 13 | 10.2:1 | 76% (101) |
| 2000-01 | 91 | N/A | N/A | 71% (65) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL.
About WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL
WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL, located in CHIEFLAND, Florida, is a small elementary school. School enrollment was 132 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5. The average among elementary schools in Florida is roughly 604 students; this school is 78% smaller than that.
LEVY includes 12 schools. Together they enroll 5,554 students.
Roughly 73% of students at WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL are White. Other reported shares: 19% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. The school's diversity index is 42%, meaning two students picked at random have a 42% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
At WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL, 10 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 13.2:1. On average, elementary schools in Florida have 17.5:1, compared with 13.2:1 here. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 73% of enrollment. That is 13 points above the 60% average for public schools in Levy County.
WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL is graded B by allk12, scoring above 63% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL is 11.4 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (56.1% versus 44.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL is located in Levy County, where the median household income is $56,750, about 17% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 14%. Besides WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL, Levy County has 14 other public schools.
NATURE COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 1.7 miles away in a straight line. In all, 3 other public schools sit within five miles of WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL. On state test proficiency, WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 4th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Distant. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.
The school enrolled 132 students in 2024-25, 27 more than the 105 it had in 2020-21.
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Levy County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
45,391
Census ACS
Median income
$56,750
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
5,554 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LEVY
- WILLISTON MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,121 students
- CHIEFLAND MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 760 students
- CHIEFLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 725 students
- JOYCE M. BULLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 638 students
- BRONSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 586 students
- BRONSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 537 students
Other schools in CHIEFLAND
- CHIEFLAND MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 760 students
- CHIEFLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 725 students
- NATURE COAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 84 students
Nearby schools
- NATURE COAST MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 84
- CHIEFLAND MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 760
- CHIEFLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 725
- TRENTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.0 mi · 779
- OLD TOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.3 mi · 517
- TRENTON HIGH SCHOOL8.5 mi · 701
Frequently asked questions
About WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOLHow many students attend WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL?
WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 132 students in grades PK-05.
Is WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL have?
WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL employs 10 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the student diversity at WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL are roughly 73% White, 19% Hispanic, 3% Black, 5% Two or more.
What district is WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL in?
WHISPERING WINDS CHARTER SCHOOL is part of LEVY.
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