The top reported proficiency rate is 69% in Math. The lowest is 63% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Lost Lake Elementary School
Lost Lake Elementary sits on Johns Lake Road in Clermont, serving children from prekindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within Lake County Schools. The school is on the larger side for its grade band, with a student body that is racially and ethnically diverse: white and Hispanic students each make up roughly the largest shares, with Black, Asian, and multiracial students rounding out a genuinely mixed population. A modest share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, below what many comparable Florida elementary schools carry. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs were not available in the records we reviewed, so parents who want detail on those services should ask the school directly.
On Florida's FAST assessments, the school's math results are a clear strength at the third- and fourth-grade levels, where most students are reaching proficiency. Fifth-grade math and all three ELA grades land in the solid-to-moderate range rather than at the top, with proficiency in those grades coming in at roughly three students in five reaching the bar. Fifth-grade science results look similar to ELA. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, holding, or slipping. Parents who want to understand the trajectory should ask the school for prior-year comparisons directly.
The school is not a charter and carries no magnet designation. Title I status was not reported. No programmatic offerings specific to this school were in the records we reviewed, so anything beyond the standard curriculum would need to be confirmed with the school or the district.
The surrounding community context matters here. Clermont is the largest city in Lake County and is publicly reported as one of Central Florida's fastest-growing places, with population roughly doubling over the past decade as former citrus groves gave way to residential neighborhoods. The area around Johns Lake Road is solidly suburban. Home values in the school's zip code are above the Florida statewide median, though they have edged downward over the past year. Renting is an option for families who cannot or prefer not to buy, though the rent-to-income ratio in this zip code is on the higher side nationally. Most daily life requires a car; the historic downtown with its walkable corridor along Montrose Street is a real asset for the city but is not immediately adjacent to the school's neighborhood.
At the district level, Lake County Schools voters in 2022 renewed a dedicated property-tax millage that funds school safety officers, nurses, and mental health staff including psychologists, social workers, and counselors. That renewal kept those supports intact at no rate increase at that time. A separate ballot measure is now publicly reported to be heading to voters in November 2026, which would add to the existing millage to fund teacher pay, recruitment, and retention, alongside continuing safety and mental health services. If approved, it would take effect in 2027. Families comparing costs of living in this area should factor that potential change in.
The district also opened its fifth new school in recent years in fall 2025, a K-8 campus in Minneola with embedded STEAM pathways, and that opening triggered an attendance-boundary adjustment that redistricted some students away from Grassy Lake Elementary. Lost Lake Elementary is not far from that growth corridor, and families new to the area should confirm their home's current attendance zone directly with Lake County Schools, as boundary adjustments in fast-growing parts of the county have been a recurring feature of recent years.
Florida's statewide cell-phone ban during instructional time took effect in the 2024-25 school year across all public schools, including this one, which shapes the daily classroom environment.
The comparison data did not yield a meaningful peer-school ranking because Lake County's comparison universe in this dataset contains only a single district, so positioning Lost Lake against neighboring schools was not possible from that source.
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