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CASTLEVIEW ELEMENTARY
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Test scores
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 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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%.
About CASTLEVIEW ELEMENTARY
As a medium-sized elementary school in ORLANDO, Florida, CASTLEVIEW ELEMENTARY instructs 693 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within ORANGE.
Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, CASTLEVIEW ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, CASTLEVIEW ELEMENTARY records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 33% White, 8% Asian, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CASTLEVIEW ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.4%.
In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. CASTLEVIEW ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).
The closest other public school is BAY LAKE ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CASTLEVIEW ELEMENTARY at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 70.7%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
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