CATALINA ELEMENTARY

CATALINA ELEMENTARY is an average-sized elementary school in ORLANDO, Florida, operated by ORANGE. The school enrolls 588 students in grades pre-K through 5.

ORANGE comprises 272 schools with combined enrollment of 207,778 students; CATALINA ELEMENTARY is among them.

Looking at the student body, CATALINA ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Black, at 66% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 28% Hispanic, 3% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 70% of students at CATALINA ELEMENTARY qualify 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 somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CATALINA ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.5%.

In the broader community, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CATALINA ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

MEMORIAL MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CATALINA ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 702 students in 2018 compared to 588 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 76% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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