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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 33834

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Summary:

The 33834 zip code is home to a single public elementary school, Bowling Green Elementary School, which serves grades PK-5 with 291 students. The school is part of the Hardee school district, which is ranked 53 out of 67 districts in Florida and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Bowling Green Elementary School's performance is consistently below the Hardee district and Florida state averages across multiple grade levels and subject areas. In the 2024-2025 school year, the school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts (ELA) and Math were below the district and state averages, and its 5th-grade Science proficiency rate of 45% was also lower than the state average of 55%. The school's chronic absenteeism rate of 31.4% in the 2023-2024 school year was higher than the state average, which may contribute to the lower academic performance.

Despite the school's academic challenges, it spends more per student ($15,003 in 2023-2024) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (14.5 in 2023-2024) than the state average. However, these additional resources have not translated into higher student achievement. The school also has a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students, with a 66.32% free/reduced lunch rate in 2023-2024, which may be a contributing factor to the lower test scores.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking ()				Ranking ()				Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	SchoolDigger Rating ()	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	Rank Change from Previous Year	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Bowling Green Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	4530 Church Ave	Bowling Green	33834	Hardee County	Hardee	No	No	No	Yes	(863) 773-5471	260	18	14.4	82.7%	82 (31.5%)	11 (4.2%)	161 (61.9%)	1 (0.4%)	3 (1.2%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.8%)								(n/a)	$13,792	$2,195	$11,597

Cities Near Zip Code 33834

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Bowling Green	1 mi	1	293^rd
Wauchula	2.96 mi	11	265^th
Fort Meade	8.3 mi	2	324^th
Zolfo Springs	9.61 mi	1	276^th
Bartow	17.17 mi	16	341^st

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Florida Department of Education.

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