BAY MEADOWS ELEMENTARY

BAY MEADOWS ELEMENTARY operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in ORLANDO, Florida, part of ORANGE. Current enrollment sits at 764 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, BAY MEADOWS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BAY MEADOWS ELEMENTARY shows that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BAY MEADOWS ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.1%, the actual is 80.4%, a residual of +9.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), BAY MEADOWS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BAY MEADOWS ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

BAY MEADOWS ELEMENTARY operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 17%: 654 students in 2018 compared to 764 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share rose from 36% to 45%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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