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Enrollment
512
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARDEE·NCES 120075000880
ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3215 SCHOOL HOUSE RD, ZOLFO SPRINGS, FL 33890 · (863) 773-5473 · Hardee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL512 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 46% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
14.6:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
402 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 21 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
53.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +8.7pp since 2023
Math
51.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 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 up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.7% | 51.6% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 50.6% |
% 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
48.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (48.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 512 | 78.5% | 48.5% |
| NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OKEECHOBEE | 528 | 78.8% | 45.1% |
| NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAUCHULA | 516 | 76.9% | 43.5% |
| WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAUCHULA | 577 | 75.7% | 58.5% |
| LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT MEADE | 593 | 78.8% | 43.2% |
| PIERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PIERSON | 534 | 73.4% | 48.0% |
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 ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #1,405 of 2,136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.6% | #1,483 of 2,149 ▼ 130 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #1,117 of 2,149 ▲ 276 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 512 | #1,371 of 2,267 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #542 of 2,077 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.1% | #1,317 of 2,108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.5% | #185 of 2,188 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.8% | #803 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
512
-38 (-7%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 589
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 512 | 35 | 14.6:1 | 79% (402) |
| 2023-24 | 550 | 38 | 14.5:1 | 72% (397) |
| 2022-23 | 590 | 41 | 14.4:1 | 79% (465) |
| 2020-21 | 550 | 38 | 14.5:1 | 71% (388) |
| 2017-18 | 587 | 41 | 14.3:1 | 73% (429) |
| 2015-16 | 562 | 39 | 14.4:1 | 77% (430) |
| 2010-11 | 533 | 38 | 14.0:1 | 81% (433) |
| 2000-01 | 675 | 38 | 17.8:1 | 85% (573) |
| 1990-91 | 589 | 33 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school in ZOLFO SPRINGS, Florida, administered by HARDEE. It educates 512 students in pre-K through 5.
ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls under HARDEE, which has 9 schools enrolling 4,547 students.
Hispanic students account for 60% of enrollment at ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Smaller groups are 37% White. For comparison, the population of Hardee County is roughly 42% Hispanic. ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 51%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The teaching staff at ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 14.6:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, higher than at this school. About 79% of students, or 402, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
The allk12 Grade for ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is B-. Compared with Florida public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 46% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (48.5%) and its predicted rate (41.8%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
Hardee County has these Census figures: median household income is about $60,489, about 12% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 20%. ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 11 public schools in Hardee County.
HARDEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 5 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Town: Distant.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 550 to 512.
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Hardee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
25,675
Census ACS
Median income
$60,489
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
12%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
20%
Below federal line
Schools in county
11
4,547 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HARDEE
- HARDEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,347 students
- HARDEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 958 students
- WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 577 students
- NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 516 students
- HILLTOP ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 298 students
- BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 260 students
Nearby schools
- HARDEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL3.8 mi · 1,347
- WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.8 mi · 577
- PIONEER CAREER ACADEMY4.0 mi · 27
- HARDEE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE4.7 mi · 52
- NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.9 mi · 516
- HARDEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL6.7 mi · 958
Frequently asked questions
About ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 512 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 37% White, 60% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by HARDEE in Hardee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.