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Enrollment
397
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144001408
CHENEY ELEMENTARY
2000 N FORSYTH RD, ORLANDO, FL 32807 · (407) 672-3120 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL397 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
269 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
55%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
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
44.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.1pp since 2023
Math
50.7%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.5% | 50.7% |
| 2023-24 | 43.3% | 51.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
48.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
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 CHENEY ELEMENTARY
CHENEY ELEMENTARY's state test result (48.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHENEY ELEMENTARY this school | 397 | 67.8% | 48.7% |
| SALLY RIDE ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 399 | 63.7% | 44.7% |
| LITTLE RIVER ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 355 | 72.1% | 43.2% |
| TRAPNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLANT CITY | 421 | 73.4% | 50.5% |
| LAWTON CHILES ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 503 | 65.2% | 61.6% |
| BING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 480 | 70.8% | 30.8% |
Matched among Florida elementary 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 CHENEY ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #1,400 of 2,136 | #109 of 157 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #1,524 of 2,149 ▼ 186 | #112 of 159 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #1,577 of 2,149 ▼ 103 | #120 of 159 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 397 | #1,776 of 2,267 | #142 of 168 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #572 of 2,077 | #39 of 159 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.8% | #1,141 of 2,108 | #100 of 159 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.8% | #554 of 2,188 | #34 of 162 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.1% | #494 of 1,374 | #48 of 112 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
397
-73 (-16%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 742
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 397 | 27 | 14.7:1 | 68% (269) |
| 2023-24 | 402 | 28 | 14.4:1 | 72% (291) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 28 | 15.4:1 | 68% (295) |
| 2020-21 | 470 | 31 | 15.2:1 | 61% (286) |
| 2017-18 | 497 | 34 | 14.6:1 | 66% (326) |
| 2015-16 | 545 | 35 | 15.6:1 | 99% (542) |
| 2010-11 | 503 | 32 | 15.7:1 | 85% (430) |
| 2000-01 | 741 | 47 | 15.8:1 | 66% (492) |
| 1990-91 | 742 | 43 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CHENEY ELEMENTARY.
About CHENEY ELEMENTARY
CHENEY ELEMENTARY is a small elementary school. Its address is in ORLANDO, Florida. It reports enrollment of 397 students in pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 34% below the 604-student average for elementary schools in Florida.
ORANGE has a total of 272 schools and 207,778 students, CHENEY ELEMENTARY among them.
More than half of the students at CHENEY ELEMENTARY are Hispanic (63%). Other reported shares: 17% Black, 14% White, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 34% Hispanic among all Orange County residents. The diversity index for CHENEY ELEMENTARY is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.7 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 2.8 more students per teacher than here. Of all students at CHENEY ELEMENTARY, 68% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 39% average among public schools in Orange County.
CHENEY ELEMENTARY's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 48.7% is 1.5 points above the 47.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Orange County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $79,719, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 286 public schools in the county, enrolling about 216,813, CHENEY ELEMENTARY among them.
Of the public schools around it, CHENEY ELEMENTARY is closest to FORSYTH WOODS ELEMENTARY, about 0.9 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 50.0%; CHENEY ELEMENTARY's is 48.7%, ranking 5th of 8.
The federal government classifies CHENEY ELEMENTARY's location as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 73 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at CHENEY ELEMENTARY. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Other Cheney Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Cheney Elementary. CHENEY ELEMENTARY is the largest of the 2.
- Cheney ElemCheney, KS · 395 students
Nearby schools
- FORSYTH WOODS ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 507
- ACCESS CHARTER1.2 mi · 115
- COLONIAL HIGH1.4 mi · 3,239
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT CHICKASAW TRAIL1.7 mi · 949
- WINTER PARK HIGH1.8 mi · 3,277
- ALOMA ELEMENTARY1.9 mi · 509
Frequently asked questions
About CHENEY ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at CHENEY ELEMENTARY?
CHENEY ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 397 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does CHENEY ELEMENTARY serve?
CHENEY ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at CHENEY ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at CHENEY ELEMENTARY.
What is the student diversity at CHENEY ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at CHENEY ELEMENTARY are roughly 14% White, 63% Hispanic, 17% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is CHENEY ELEMENTARY in?
CHENEY ELEMENTARY is part of ORANGE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.