The top reported proficiency rate is 69% in Math. The lowest is 60% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Deep Creek Elementary School
Deep Creek Elementary sits on Harbor View Road in Port Charlotte, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within Charlotte County Public Schools. The school draws from a community that is primarily residential, car-dependent, and oriented around Charlotte Harbor, with health care, county government, and construction among the area's main employment anchors. Port Charlotte reads as a lower-density, affordable-relative-to-coastal-Florida setting that has been drawing younger families and workers alongside its historically retirement-age population.
On state assessments, Deep Creek's results come from Florida's FAST exams and the Statewide Science Assessment, all reported for the most recent school year. In math, third graders perform solidly, with proficiency well above the two-thirds mark, while fourth and fifth graders come in somewhat lower but still hold a meaningful majority proficient. ELA results follow a similar pattern: third grade is the strongest point, with fourth and fifth grades trailing by a modest but visible gap. Science, tested only at fifth grade, lands just above the three-fifths mark. Taken together, the school's proficiency rates are reasonable at the younger grades and soften a bit moving toward fifth grade, which is a pattern worth asking the school about as children progress, particularly in reading and writing.
Enrollment is substantial for a K-5 building, spread across a full grade range from a small pre-K cohort through fifth grade. Just over half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, meaning the school serves a genuinely economically mixed population rather than a uniformly advantaged or uniformly high-needs one. The student body is majority white, with Hispanic and Black students making up meaningful shares and a multiracial group as well. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in the records reviewed, so families of children with disabilities or language support needs should ask the school directly about those programs.
Discipline, attendance, and chronic absenteeism data were not reported in the available records. A parent would want to ask the school directly about attendance patterns and school climate.
Charlotte County Public Schools, the district that runs Deep Creek, has been publicly reported as earning a B grade from the Florida Department of Education for the most recent school year, described as its strongest rating in over a decade. The district operates a locally renewed property tax levy that publicly reported sources describe as funding teacher salaries, school security, and arts programming beyond what the state provides. That levy runs through the 2026-27 school year and is expected to return to voters in late 2026, so families who buy into the area would want to track that renewal. On the capital side, Hurricane Ian in 2022 caused serious damage to several district facilities, and at least one middle school remains in a complicated rebuild situation. Deep Creek Elementary itself is not named in that concern, but the district's overall capital and facilities picture is one worth following.
For families considering the local housing market, home values in the zip code have declined over the past year and now sit below the Florida statewide benchmark, which puts the area on the more accessible end of the state's homeownership spectrum. Rents have also dipped slightly. That combination, alongside Charlotte County's publicly reported growth as a relocation destination, suggests a market in modest correction after a period of pressure, which matters for families timing a purchase.
A graduation rate does not apply here because Deep Creek serves only elementary grades. Multi-year trend data was not available, so whether proficiency has improved or declined over time cannot be determined from what was reported.
Deep Creek reads as a mid-sized neighborhood elementary in a growing Florida county, with proficiency results that are respectable at the early grades and where a parent would reasonably want to track how reading and math outcomes hold through fifth grade.
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