Cedar Key’s public schools score below 70% of Florida districts
The public schools Cedar Key’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 70% of Florida’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
Cedar Key’s schools, in brief
Cedar Key’s schools are very small
All of Cedar Key’s public school students add up to 202 children, with about 12 per teacher. That means real individual attention, but also that a single class can swing the scores from year to year. Every school ↓
One school for every grade
Cedar Key has a single public school, Cedar Key High School, covering pre-K through graduation, so kids stay with the same classmates the whole way through. See the path ↓
The gap is biggest in reading
Reading proficiency is 43%, 9 points below the state. Math is 45%, 3 points below the state. Test scores ↓
This summary is written from the data on this page. Test scores are from 2020–21, a pandemic year, so treat small gaps with caution.
How Cedar Key compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Florida’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Florida only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Cedar Key.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Well below the state in reading
Every school in Cedar Key
1 school. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Cedar Key families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Florida. Stars are from neighbors.