Oakstead Elementary School, Land O Lakes FL

Original Research by School Decision on Oakstead Elementary School

Oakstead Elementary sits on Lake Patience Road in Land O' Lakes, a fast-growing suburban census-designated place in Pasco County just north of Tampa. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Pasco County district. Its enrollment is large for its grade band, spread fairly evenly across the elementary grades with a robust kindergarten cohort that reflects the continued residential growth surrounding it.

The student body is majority white, with Hispanic students making up roughly a quarter of enrollment and Asian students a meaningful share as well. Students from multiple racial backgrounds and those identifying as two or more races add further variety. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch is well below typical Florida elementary averages, pointing to a relatively economically stable community. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in the records reviewed.

On Florida's FAST assessments, third-grade results are genuinely strong in both math and ELA, placing most tested students at or above proficiency. Fifth-grade math mirrors that strength. Fourth-grade math sits noticeably lower than the other tested grades, a gap worth asking the school about directly, particularly for families with children entering or already in that grade. ELA proficiency in grades four and five lands in the upper sixties, solid but somewhat softer than the third-grade reading results. Fifth-grade science proficiency, measured by the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, lands in the high sixties, broadly consistent with the upper-elementary ELA picture. A meaningful comparison against peer schools was not possible because Pasco County has only one district, so the county-comparison framework did not yield a useful positioning.

No trend data across years was available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are rising, stable, or shifting. Multi-year performance is worth asking the school to walk through.

The broader Land O' Lakes context shapes what families should expect day to day. This is a car-dependent suburban place with no walkable downtown; school access means driving. Publicly reported sources describe it as one of the faster-growing areas in Florida, with active master-planned communities, deep new-construction inventory, and major development underway including the Moffitt Cancer Center's Speros life sciences campus, which is projected to bring a substantial employment base to the area over time. Home values in the school's zip code sit above both state and national medians, though they have dipped modestly over the past year. Renting is also slightly above the national middle. Rapid growth has brought well-documented traffic pressure along US-41 and State Road 54, with road expansions planned.

At the district level, Pasco County voters approved a property-tax referendum in 2022 to fund non-administrative staff salaries, and teacher vacancies dropped sharply in the years following. A renewal of that levy is headed to the November 2026 ballot, which means the additional millage on homeowner property-tax bills is a factor to carry into any housing-cost calculation. A separately renewed local sales tax provides capital funding for new school construction and renovations, relevant given how hard enrollment growth has pushed capacity in parts of the county. Rezoning tied to that growth is most active in the Wesley Chapel corridor to the east, but families new to any part of Land O' Lakes should confirm their assigned attendance zone before committing to a specific neighborhood, since boundary adjustments have been ongoing.

No program offerings, AP or career-pathway data, staffing ratios, attendance, or discipline information was available for Oakstead specifically, so those dimensions of the school's environment are gaps a parent would want to fill through a campus visit or direct conversation with the school.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 374%

School 74% · District 58% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 49% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 573%

School 73% · District 52% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 6100%

School 100% · District 57% · ▲ 43 pts above district

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 373%

School 73% · District 57% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 469%

School 69% · District 54% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 568%

School 68% · District 53% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Science

Grade 567%

School 67% · District 49% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

This schoolPASCO, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income59%Higher-income77%18 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income49%Higher-income73%24 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income50%Higher-income72%22 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income51%Higher-income80%29 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income36%Higher-income57%21 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income53%Higher-income77%23 pp gap