The top reported proficiency rate is 52% in Math. The lowest is 50% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Spring Hill Elementary School
Spring Hill Elementary sits on Mariner Boulevard in one of Hernando County's most active residential corridors, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Hernando County district. The enrollment is large for an elementary school, and the student body reflects the community around it: predominantly white and Hispanic, with a meaningful share of multiracial students and a smaller Black population. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which tells you something about the economic range of families this school serves. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs was not available in the records we reviewed.
State assessment results come from Florida's FAST exams and the Grade 5 Statewide Science Assessment. The picture is mixed across grade levels. Third-grade math proficiency sits above the majority threshold, which is the clearest bright spot in the academic data here. ELA results in third and fourth grade land in the low-to-mid range, and fourth-grade math follows a similar pattern. Fifth grade is where the numbers soften most: both ELA and math proficiency fall below half of students, and science sits right at the midpoint. A parent would reasonably want to ask the school directly about what happens in the upper elementary grades, particularly in math, where the drop from third to fifth is the most pronounced trend in the data. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible from this data alone to say whether these numbers are improving, holding steady, or declining.
Because this is a pre-K through fifth grade school, there is no graduation rate to report, and the comparison framework for county districts flagged that Hernando County has only one district, making a district-level proficiency comparison inapplicable.
The school operates in a community that is growing steadily. Spring Hill is the largest community in Hernando County, an unincorporated, car-dependent stretch of residential neighborhoods built mostly on detached single-family homes, many from the early 1990s. It has no traditional downtown; commercial life runs along arterials like Mariner Boulevard itself. Health care, the school district, and retail anchor most local employment, with a large regional hospital functioning as the county's biggest private employer. Nature access is genuine, with Gulf-edge county parks and the Weeki Wachee preserve close by, and the Suncoast Parkway has made the Tampa metro reachable in a reasonable drive. Growth continues, with new subdivisions in various stages across the county and infill in Spring Hill expected to keep enrollment pressures present for the district.
On the housing side, home values in the zip code are modestly below the Florida statewide benchmark and have dipped slightly year over year, while rents have pulled back more noticeably. Renting runs well below buying on a monthly cost basis here, which makes Spring Hill an accessible entry point relative to the broader Tampa-area market, though mortgage costs relative to household income still reflect the broader rate environment.
At the district level, Hernando County voters have recently considered renewing two funding measures: a one-mill property tax supporting teacher pay, school safety, and mental health resources, and a half-cent sales tax for facilities, with a new provision added to allow construction and expansion of schools as the county's population grows. Whether these renewals passed is not confirmed in the data we have, but publicly reported coverage leading up to the November 2024 vote described both as renewals of existing levies rather than new asks, and the addition of a school-construction provision reflects the district's awareness that capacity planning is a live question as Spring Hill keeps adding residents.
Program-specific offerings for Spring Hill Elementary were not available in the data we reviewed, so families interested in enrichment tracks, special services, or extracurricular programs would want to contact the school directly.
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