The top reported proficiency rate is 59% in Science. The lowest is 54% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Webster Elementary School
Webster Elementary sits on Market Boulevard in Webster, a small rural town in Sumter County that has spent a century building an identity around agriculture, a famous Monday flea market, and a quiet pace of life that breaks only seasonally. The school draws from a community that publicly reported sources describe as a suburban-rural mix, predominantly homeowner households, with a population that skews toward retirees outside the school-age years. The county sits roughly midway between Orlando and Tampa, and that corridor position is beginning to drive residential development: a large land acquisition in Webster is planned for single-family homes aimed at first-time and younger buyers, and county infrastructure planning now includes water and sewer master planning for Webster's anticipated growth. For families moving into the area, the school's enrollment is likely to grow alongside that development.
The school serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, which means graduation rates do not apply here, and the absence of that metric reflects the grade band rather than any gap in the data. Multi-year trend data was not available, so the picture of progress or trajectory over time cannot be drawn from what is reported.
What is available are the most recent Florida FAST and statewide science results across grades three through five. The third-grade results are the strongest in the building, with a majority of students scoring proficient in both math and ELA. Science proficiency at the fifth-grade level is also solid, with a majority of tested students reaching the bar. The pattern in the upper grades is softer. Math and ELA proficiency rates in fourth and fifth grade sit below the majority threshold, with fifth-grade math the lowest reported figure. These are not catastrophic numbers, but they do tell a parent that a meaningful share of students in the later elementary years are not yet meeting the state's proficiency standard, and a parent who wants to understand what support structures the school has in place for students below grade level would do well to ask that directly. IEP rates and English learner data were not available in what was reported.
The student body is sizable for a rural elementary school. A majority of students are white, with a substantial Hispanic population and smaller Black and multiracial groups represented. Roughly half of the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in the middle range for economic need rather than at either extreme. Pre-kindergarten enrollment is a real part of the school's identity, with a meaningful number of the youngest learners counted in the building, making it a genuine starting point for families with children not yet in kindergarten.
On discipline, attendance, course access, and staffing, the data was not available, so those dimensions cannot be characterized here.
The housing market around Webster is more accessible than Florida's state median. Home values in the zip code are noticeably below the statewide benchmark and close to the national median, with modest year-over-year appreciation. Rental data was not reported for the area. For buyers, the price-to-income ratio is comparatively reasonable in a state where affordability has become a serious pressure. That relative affordability, combined with the planned residential development nearby, is likely to shape the school's enrollment composition over the next several years.
The Sumter County School District has been actively adding permanent classroom capacity at other schools in response to growth, which signals district-level awareness of the population trend. Webster Elementary itself was not named in the recent construction announcements, but families should be aware that a fast-growing enrollment countywide means capacity questions are worth raising when visiting the school.
The comparison data available for Sumter County covered only one district, which means there is no meaningful peer-district positioning to offer; the comparison set was too small for that calculation to be applicable.
What Webster Elementary offers is a pre-K-through-five neighborhood school in a genuinely rural, affordable, and slowly changing town, with strong third-grade results and a softer picture in the upper grades that merits a closer conversation with the school about how they support students who need more time to reach proficiency.
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