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Enrollment
536
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159001771
WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
3415 SWINDELL RD, LAKELAND, FL 33810 · (863) 499-2890 · Polk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL536 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% 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
17.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
274 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 | 15 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
71.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
73.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.4% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.3% | 68.7% |
% 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
70.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% 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 15 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 WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING's state test result (70.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING this school | 536 | 51.1% | 70.2% |
| FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY WINTER HAVEN | 547 | 51.9% | 78.4% |
| LIMONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRANDON | 543 | 52.7% | 57.9% |
| DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER K-8 PALM BEACH GARDENS | 565 | 50.4% | 54.4% |
| NELSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DOVER | 630 | 48.1% | 50.5% |
| LAYER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINTER SPRINGS | 543 | 49.5% | 68.3% |
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 WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #455 of 2,136 | #9 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #534 of 2,149 ▲ 47 | #12 of 86 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #394 of 2,149 ▲ 18 | #8 of 86 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 536 | #1,277 of 2,267 | #53 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #1,506 of 2,077 | #42 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.0% | #81 of 2,108 | #1 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.1% | #1,259 of 2,188 | #77 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #1,263 of 1,374 | #35 of 39 |
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
536
+8 (+2%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 873
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 536 | 31 | 17.3:1 | 51% (274) |
| 2023-24 | 520 | 32 | 16.3:1 | 52% (269) |
| 2022-23 | 506 | 27 | 18.7:1 | 38% (193) |
| 2020-21 | 528 | 31 | 17.0:1 | 42% (221) |
| 2017-18 | 551 | 33 | 16.7:1 | 50% (276) |
| 2015-16 | 530 | 31 | 17.1:1 | 60% (317) |
| 2010-11 | 497 | 32 | 15.5:1 | 93% (463) |
| 2000-01 | 703 | 44 | 16.0:1 | 80% (560) |
| 1990-91 | 873 | 42 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING.
About WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING is a medium-sized elementary school serving families in LAKELAND, Florida. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 536 students.
The 163 schools in POLK enroll 116,552 students altogether, WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING among them.
Enrollment at WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING is mixed, with White students the largest group at 35%. The school is also 31% Hispanic, 24% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. That is lower than the 56% White share among all Polk County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 72%.
WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING operates with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 17.3:1. Elementary schools in Florida average about 17.5:1, a similar figure. WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING reports 51% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Polk County is 65%.
WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING is graded A by allk12, scoring above 86% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations places WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING in the top 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 14.6 points above it (70.2% actual, 55.5% predicted).
In Polk County (population about 790,694), median household income is about $65,978, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING is one of 172 public schools in Polk County, which together enroll about 117,004 students.
KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING is 3rd of 6 on proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
The school's size has been steady, with 528 students in 2020-21 and 536 in 2024-25.
Community posts for WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
790,694
Census ACS
Median income
$65,978
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
172
117,004 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POLK
- HAINES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,105 students
- DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,731 students
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,648 students
- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,276 students
Other schools in LAKELAND
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,985 students
- LAKE GIBSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,973 students
- KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,861 students
- MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGYHigh · 1,750 students
- SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMYElementary · 1,200 students
Nearby schools
- KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,861
- MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY1.9 mi · 1,750
- JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 621
- IDEA LAKELAND2.3 mi · 452
- GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 431
- POLK VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM2.8 mi · 17
Frequently asked questions
About WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERINGWhat is the total enrollment at WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING?
WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING enrolls approximately 536 students in grades PK-05.
Is WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING an elementary, middle, or high school?
WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING?
Approximately 17.3:1 students per teacher at WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING.
How diverse is WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING?
WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING reports a student body of 35% White, 31% Hispanic, 24% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING?
WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING is overseen by POLK in Polk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.