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ANDOVER ELEMENTARY
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ANDOVER ELEMENTARY
ANDOVER ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary campus in ORLANDO, Florida, run under ORANGE. The school educates 629 students in grades pre-K through 5.
ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. ANDOVER ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.
Demographically, ANDOVER ELEMENTARY lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 24% White, 17% Black, 6% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, ANDOVER ELEMENTARY has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at ANDOVER ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, ANDOVER ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.8%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Orange County) records that the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), ANDOVER ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is CYPRESS SPRINGS ELEMENTARY, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ANDOVER ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.3%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Five-year trend. ANDOVER ELEMENTARY's enrollment has ticked down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 843 (now 629). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 56% to 51%.
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