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How has FLORENCE EL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
475
Elementary
DISTRICT 482 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KELLER ISD·NCES 482526002820
Florence Elementary School
3095 JOHNSON RD, SOUTHLAKE, TX 76092 · (817) 744-4700 · Tarrant County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL475 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
45 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 65%
Community
1
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 | 4 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 107 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 29% smaller than its 4th grade class (107).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 63% · 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
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
79.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -1.0pp since 2023
Mathematics
77.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 44.0% | 35.0% | 12.0% | 9.0% |
| Mathematics | 45.0% | 32.0% | 13.0% | 10.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 79.0% | 77.0% |
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 80.0% | 76.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. 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
77.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Texas 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 Texas'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 Florence Elementary School
Florence Elementary School's state test result (77.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florence Elementary School this school | 475 | 9.5% | 77.4% |
| Glen Oaks Elementary School MCKINNEY | 478 | 9.0% | 69.9% |
| Ep Rayzor Elementary School LANTANA | 510 | 10.0% | 62.4% |
| Mohawk Elementary School RICHARDSON | 492 | 9.1% | 78.5% |
| Blanton Elementary School LANTANA | 470 | 5.7% | 67.9% |
| Nebbie Williams Elementary School ROCKWALL | 442 | 12.2% | 83.6% |
Matched among Texas 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 Florence Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.4% | #137 of 4,401 | #9 of 330 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #210 of 4,466 ▲ 351 | #16 of 339 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #300 of 4,466 ▲ 77 | #20 of 339 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 475 | #2,772 of 4,938 | #195 of 353 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #2,737 of 4,622 | #219 of 348 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.3% | #2,625 of 4,628 | #271 of 348 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.5% | #4,665 of 4,789 | #335 of 341 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.9% | #2,711 of 2,838 | #230 of 242 |
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
475
+6 (+1%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 797
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 475 | 31 | 15.3:1 | 9% (45) |
| 2023-24 | 501 | 33.9 | 14.8:1 | 9% (45) |
| 2022-23 | 489 | 34.8 | 14.0:1 | 11% (52) |
| 2020-21 | 469 | 33 | 14.2:1 | 9% (41) |
| 2017-18 | 484 | 32.9 | 14.7:1 | 4% (20) |
| 2015-16 | 512 | 33 | 15.5:1 | 5% (26) |
| 2010-11 | 534 | 34 | 15.7:1 | 4% (22) |
| 2000-01 | 632 | 42 | 15.1:1 | 7% (45) |
| 1990-91 | 797 | 40 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Florence Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (484 to 475); teachers down 6% (32.9 to 31).
About Florence Elementary School
Florence Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Texas, with an address in SOUTHLAKE. The school counts 475 students across pre-K through 4.
KELLER ISD runs 42 schools with a combined 32,042 students. Florence Elementary School is one of them.
White students are the majority at Florence Elementary School, with 70% of enrollment. The school is also 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 3% Black. The White share of the county population is lower, at 48%. The school's diversity index is 47%, meaning two students picked at random have a 47% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal data list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers at Florence Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 15.3:1. That is close to the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. The lunch program counts 9% of students at Florence Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 63% average for public schools in Tarrant County is 54 points.
Florence Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (77.4%) and its predicted rate (69.6%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Texas schools.
In Tarrant County (population about 2,167,390), the median household income is $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the poverty rate is about 8%. There are 639 public schools in Tarrant County, enrolling about 385,835 students in all.
The school nearest to Florence Elementary School is Carroll Senior High School, at a distance of about 1.4 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Florence Elementary School is 4th among 6 schools close by.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 469 to 475. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.2:1 to 15.3:1.
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Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in KELLER ISD
- Timber Creek High SchoolHigh · 2,970 students
- Keller High SchoolHigh · 2,951 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,410 students
- Fossil Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,140 students
- Hillwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,126 students
- Parkwood Hill Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,022 students
Other schools in SOUTHLAKE
- Carroll Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,422 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 1,357 students
- Carroll Middle SchoolMiddle · 713 students
- Don T Durham Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 667 students
- Jack D Johnson Elementary SchoolElementary · 614 students
- Eubanks Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 611 students
Other Florence Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 8 states are named Florence Elementary. Florence Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 10.
- Florence Elementary SchoolFLORENCE, TX · 523 students
- Florence Elementary SchoolMESQUITE, TX · 509 students
- Florence ElementaryHigh Point, NC · 628 students
- Florence Elementary SchoolFlorence, KY · 610 students
- Florence ElementaryFlorence, MS · 537 students
Nearby schools
- Carroll Senior High School1.4 mi · 1,422
- Carroll Elementary School1.6 mi · 610
- Hidden Lakes Elementary School1.7 mi · 396
- Keller High School2.0 mi · 2,951
- Bear Creek Intermediate School2.3 mi · 904
- Shady Grove Elementary School2.5 mi · 378
Frequently asked questions
About Florence Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Florence Elementary School?
Florence Elementary School enrolls approximately 475 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does Florence Elementary School serve?
Florence Elementary School serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Florence Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Florence Elementary School is approximately 15.3:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Florence Elementary School?
Student demographics at Florence Elementary School are roughly 70% White, 16% Hispanic, 3% Black, 5% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Florence Elementary School public or private?
Florence Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by KELLER ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.