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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE administration to hear?
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Enrollment
955
Middle
DISTRICT 906 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144003630
CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE
8700 CONROY WINDERMERE RD, ORLANDO, FL 32835 · (407) 909-5400 · Orange County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL955 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of Florida public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
22.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.4:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
397 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 276 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 310 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 369 | 39% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE→OLYMPIA HIGH
Based on published attendance-zone data from ORANGE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
38.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.6pp since 2023
Math
43.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.4% | 43.2% |
| 2023-24 | 32.8% | 36.1% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
38.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 60% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE
CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE's state test result (38.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE this school | 955 | 41.6% | 38.3% |
| FOREST GLEN MIDDLE SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 1,037 | 37.3% | 58.5% |
| WOLF LAKE MIDDLE APOPKA | 1,146 | 43.2% | 60.8% |
| CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE ROYAL PALM BEACH | 752 | 46.3% | 57.5% |
| APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 1,143 | 45.1% | 55.7% |
| PROGRESS VILLAGE MIDDLE MAGNET TAMPA | 849 | 43.1% | 60.1% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #488 of 560 | #37 of 41 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #456 of 560 ▲ 22 | #34 of 41 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.4% | #464 of 560 ▼ 2 | #32 of 41 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 955 | #178 of 584 | #19 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.2:1 | #481 of 547 | #42 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.2% | #174 of 553 | #14 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.6% | #395 of 565 | #23 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.9% | #65 of 379 | #4 of 33 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
955
-202 (-17%) vs 2020
-30% since 2000-01, when it was 1,356
Student : Teacher
22.2:1
was 18.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 955 | 43 | 22.2:1 | 42% (397) |
| 2023-24 | 1,052 | 54 | 19.5:1 | 48% (503) |
| 2022-23 | 1,209 | 49 | 24.7:1 | 46% (558) |
| 2020-21 | 1,157 | 63 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,307 | 71 | 18.4:1 | 67% (874) |
| 2015-16 | 1,310 | 69 | 19.0:1 | 67% (884) |
| 2010-11 | 1,315 | 70 | 18.8:1 | 58% (768) |
| 2000-01 | 1,356 | 59 | 23.0:1 | 39% (535) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE.
About CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE
Located in ORLANDO, Florida, CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE is a medium-sized middle school. Its 955 students are spread across grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 20% bigger than the 794 average for middle schools in Florida.
ORANGE enrolls 207,778 students in 272 schools, including CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE.
The most common group at CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE is Hispanic students, at 41%. Other students are 41% Black, 13% White, and 3% Asian. The school's diversity index is 64%, meaning two students picked at random have a 64% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 22.2:1 comes from the school's 43 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida. The lunch program counts 42% of students at CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 39% average for public schools in Orange County.
The allk12 Grade for CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE is D. Compared with Florida public middle schools, the school scored higher than 5% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE falls short of its prediction by 22.0 points. The model expects 60.3% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Florida; the school's rate is 38.3%.
County data help place the school in context: in Orange County, the median household income is $79,719, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. In all, Orange County has 286 public schools and roughly 216,813 students.
The nearest public school is OLYMPIA HIGH, at about 0.4 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE is 8th among 8 schools close by.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Federal data show a 17% enrollment decrease, from 1,157 in 2020-21 to 955 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 22.2:1, from 18.4:1.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,471,937
Census ACS
Median income
$79,719
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
286
216,813 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ORANGE
- APOPKA HIGHHigh · 3,446 students
- TIMBER CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,383 students
- WINTER PARK HIGHHigh · 3,277 students
- COLONIAL HIGHHigh · 3,239 students
- WINDERMERE HIGHHigh · 3,217 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,127 students
Other schools in ORLANDO
- FLORIDA VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,331 students
- TIMBER CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,383 students
- COLONIAL HIGHHigh · 3,239 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,127 students
- LAKE NONA HIGHHigh · 2,974 students
- DR. PHILLIPS HIGHHigh · 2,964 students
Nearby schools
- OLYMPIA HIGH0.4 mi · 2,901
- WINDY RIDGE K-80.9 mi · 1,136
- PALM LAKE ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 574
- SOUTHWEST MIDDLE1.7 mi · 1,290
- WESTPOINTE ELEMENTARY2.1 mi · 683
- METROWEST ELEMENTARY2.2 mi · 549
Frequently asked questions
About CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLEHow many students attend CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE?
CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE enrolls approximately 955 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE serve?
CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE?
Approximately 22.2:1 students per teacher at CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE.
How diverse is CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE?
CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE reports a student body of 13% White, 41% Hispanic, 41% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE?
CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE is overseen by ORANGE in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.