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Enrollment
678
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUMTER·NCES 120180001940
WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
300 HUEY ST, WILDWOOD, FL 34785 · (352) 748-3353 · Sumter County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL678 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
16.1:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
319 students
DISTRICT 45% · 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 | 86 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 142 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 153 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 164 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 133 | 20% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
72.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.0% | 76.0% |
% 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
73.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% 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 16 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 WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (73.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 678 | 47.1% | 73.3% |
| CROWN POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 785 | 47.3% | 51.0% |
| OCEANWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 728 | 44.0% | 58.6% |
| CHIMNEY LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 871 | 46.2% | 58.8% |
| KIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE RIVERVIEW SOUTH (K-12) RIVERVIEW | 558 | 47.8% | 54.2% |
| SUMMERFIELD CROSSINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RIVERVIEW | 797 | 49.9% | 39.9% |
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 WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #346 of 2,136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #347 of 2,149 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #368 of 2,149 ▲ 97 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 678 | #790 of 2,267 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #1,174 of 2,077 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.4% | #118 of 2,108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.1% | #1,387 of 2,188 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.7% | #909 of 1,374 |
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
678
-31 (-4%) vs 2020
+10% since 1990-91, when it was 614
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 678 | 42 | 16.1:1 | 47% (319) |
| 2023-24 | 658 | 41 | 16.1:1 | 51% (334) |
| 2022-23 | 940 | 56 | 16.8:1 | 76% (712) |
| 2020-21 | 709 | 43 | 16.5:1 | 66% (468) |
| 2017-18 | 759 | 53 | 14.3:1 | 90% (685) |
| 2015-16 | 741 | 53 | 14.0:1 | 91% (671) |
| 2010-11 | 828 | 53 | 15.6:1 | 85% (706) |
| 2000-01 | 519 | 28 | 18.5:1 | 76% (394) |
| 1990-91 | 614 | 31 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in WILDWOOD, Florida, and it is part of SUMTER. It has an enrollment of 678 students in pre-K through 5.
In SUMTER, 12 schools enroll a combined 10,013 students.
The student body at WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has no majority group. Black students lead at 34%. The remaining shares are 34% White, 22% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. Sumter County as a whole is about 7% Black, so the school's share is higher. A diversity index of 71% means there is a 71% chance two randomly chosen students at WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
With 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 16.1:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. Roughly 47% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 37% for public schools in Sumter County.
WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 90% of Florida public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the top 10% of Florida schools: 73.3% actual against 57.6% predicted.
In Sumter County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $76,508 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Sumter County number 14, with about 10,013 students.
WILDWOOD MIDDLE/ HIGH SCHOOL sits about 0.4 miles from WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 3 other public schools within five miles. WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Small.
Enrollment fell 4% over 4 years, reaching 678 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Sumter County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
143,408
Census ACS
Median income
$76,508
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
14
10,013 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SUMTER
- VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 4,062 students
- SOUTH SUMTER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,077 students
- SOUTH SUMTER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 890 students
- BUSHNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 752 students
- WILDWOOD MIDDLE/ HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 710 students
- WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 690 students
Other schools in WILDWOOD
- WILDWOOD MIDDLE/ HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 710 students
- WILDWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
Other Wildwood Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 12 states are named Wildwood Elementary. WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 15.
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolTOMBALL, TX · 819 students
- WILDWOOD ELEMENTARYSTILLWATER, MN · 648 students
- Wildwood ElementaryYucaipa, CA · 607 students
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolFEDERAL WAY, WA · 598 students
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolWESTLAND, MI · 527 students
Nearby schools
- WILDWOOD MIDDLE/ HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 710
- WILDWOOD INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 409
- VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL4.7 mi · 4,062
- RIMES EARLY LEARNING & LITERACY CENTER7.6 mi · 242
- FRUITLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.8 mi · 688
- THE VILLAGES ELEMENTARY OF LADY LAKE SCHOOL8.0 mi · 740
Frequently asked questions
About WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 678 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.1:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 34% White, 22% Hispanic, 34% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SUMTER in Sumter County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.