Sabal Point Elementary School, Longwood FL

Original Research by School Decision on Sabal Point Elementary School

Sabal Point Elementary sits on Wekiva Springs Road in Longwood, a residential community in Seminole County just north of Orlando. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Seminole County Public Schools district, and its enrollment is on the larger end for an elementary school of its grade band.

The academic picture here is genuinely strong. On Florida's FAST assessments, third and fourth graders performed at high proficiency levels in both math and ELA, and fourth grade ELA and fifth grade ELA results were similarly impressive. Fifth grade science results, measured by Florida's Statewide Science Assessment, were also well above what you would call middling. The one area where the pattern shifts is fifth grade math, where proficiency drops to a level that is meaningfully lower than the third and fourth grade results. It is still a majority of students scoring proficient, but the gap from the earlier grades is noticeable enough that a parent with a child approaching fifth grade may want to ask the school specifically about what happens in that transition. The sixth grade math result reflects a very small group of students and should not be read as representative of the school's typical population.

Multi-year trend data was not available in the data provided, so it is not possible to say whether the current results represent improvement, stability, or a recent shift.

About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which reflects a mix of economic backgrounds without being a predominantly low-income school. The student body is majority white, with Hispanic students making up a substantial share of enrollment, and smaller shares of Black, multiracial, and Asian students. Data on English learners and students with individualized education programs was not reported, so it is not possible to characterize what support infrastructure looks like for those populations. A parent with a child who has specific learning needs would want to ask the district directly.

Longwood itself is a place with more texture than a typical suburb. The historic downtown, anchored around the SunRail commuter rail station, has genuine late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century architecture, a small cluster of walkable shops and restaurants, and Reiter Park as a community gathering point. Beyond that compact core, the city is suburban in character. The Seminole Wekiva Trail, a paved multi-use path that runs for many miles through the area, is the main recreational spine. The city is actively developing, with transit-oriented housing near the SunRail station already open, mixed-use projects in planning, and several smaller residential and commercial developments currently on the map.

Housing near the school carries values well above Florida's statewide median and well above the national median. The market has been essentially flat year over year on the ownership side while rents have edged up slightly. At prevailing mortgage rates, the monthly cost of ownership is substantial, and affordability by standard price-to-income measures is stretched. This is a market where buyers are typically coming with significant resources or equity from a prior home.

A few district-level changes are worth knowing. Starting in the 2025-26 school year, Seminole County Public Schools implemented a full-day cell phone prohibition for elementary students. Since Sabal Point serves through fifth grade, all students here fall under that policy. The district also treats AI-assisted schoolwork as plagiarism, a policy in effect since the prior school year. On the funding side, Seminole County voters renewed a one-cent infrastructure sales surtax in November 2024, which directs money to school improvements, security, and technology across the district. The school property tax millage rate has edged downward in recent years, though rising home values mean most homeowners are paying more in total school taxes than before.

Graduation rate is not applicable here because the school does not serve high school grades.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 386%

School 86% · District 70% · ▲ 16 pts above district

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

Grade 487%

School 87% · District 69% · ▲ 18 pts above district

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

Grade 563%

School 63% · District 46% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 6100%

School 100% · District 71% · ▲ 29 pts above district

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 381%

School 81% · District 69% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 484%

School 84% · District 67% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 584%

School 84% · District 64% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Science

Grade 582%

School 82% · District 66% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

This schoolSEMINOLE, 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-income73%Higher-income85%12 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income69%Higher-income91%22 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income71%Higher-income91%20 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income76%Higher-income92%15 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income72%Higher-income93%22 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income46%Higher-income74%28 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income100%Higher-income100%0 pp gap