CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary-level community in KISSIMMEE, Florida, overseen by OSCEOLA, works with 529 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within OSCEOLA, which oversees 83 schools and 75,388 students, CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 14% Black, 11% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Osceola County as a whole is about 56% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Osceola County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.3%; CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 27.2%, -22.1 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Osceola County) shows that median household income runs about $72,637, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 88 public schools in Osceola County (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students).

Nearest neighbor: MAIN STREET HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 31% since 2018, when it stood at 771 (now 529). The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 75% to 71% over that span.

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