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Enrollment
489
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144001451
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY
18501 CYPRESS LAKE GLEN BLVD, ORLANDO, FL 32820 · (407) 568-2921 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL489 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
196 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
65%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
69.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.9pp since 2023
Math
71.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.2% | 71.8% |
| 2023-24 | 66.3% | 66.0% |
% 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
69.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY's state test result (69.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY this school | 489 | 40.1% | 69.0% |
| OLDSMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OLDSMAR | 473 | 39.1% | 70.7% |
| STENSTROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OVIEDO | 697 | 43.0% | 73.4% |
| SUNRIDGE ELEMENTARY WINTER GARDEN | 629 | 41.0% | 58.9% |
| CAMELOT ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 545 | 42.6% | 65.9% |
| J. C. MITCHELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOCA RATON | 683 | 40.7% | 56.3% |
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 COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #499 of 2,136 | #43 of 157 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #573 of 2,149 ▲ 127 | #47 of 159 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #469 of 2,149 ▲ 25 | #39 of 159 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 489 | #1,466 of 2,267 | #112 of 168 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #1,217 of 2,077 | #114 of 159 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #589 of 2,108 | #47 of 159 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.1% | #1,579 of 2,188 | #98 of 162 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #713 of 1,374 | #63 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
489
-13 (-3%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 954
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 489 | 30 | 16.3:1 | 40% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 499 | 27 | 18.5:1 | 49% (244) |
| 2022-23 | 509 | 32 | 15.9:1 | 50% (254) |
| 2020-21 | 502 | 31 | 16.2:1 | 50% (252) |
| 2017-18 | 574 | 38 | 15.1:1 | 58% (334) |
| 2015-16 | 1,041 | 68 | 15.3:1 | 55% (577) |
| 2010-11 | 1,078 | 67 | 16.1:1 | 48% (513) |
| 2000-01 | 865 | 49 | 17.6:1 | 59% (514) |
| 1990-91 | 954 | 57 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY.
About COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is a small elementary school in ORLANDO, Florida, under ORANGE. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 489 students on the rolls.
A total of 272 schools make up ORANGE, with 207,778 students enrolled.
The largest racial or ethnic group at COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is White, with 45% of students. Next come 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% Asian, and 3% multiracial. In Orange County overall, the White share is about 42%. The diversity index for COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is 65%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY reported 30 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 16.3:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1. There are 196 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 40% of enrollment. The figure for public schools in Orange County is close, at 39%.
The model predicts 61.1% for a school in Florida with COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY's free or reduced-price lunch share. COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY posts 69.0%.
The county, Orange County, is 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. The county has 286 public schools and about 216,813 students.
CORNER LAKE MIDDLE is the nearest public school to COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is ahead of the 57.3% nearby average, ranking 1st of 8.
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 3%, from 502 to 489.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at COLUMBIA 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 Columbia Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 13 states are named Columbia Elementary. COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is the 9th largest of the 25.
- COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPALM BAY, FL · 576 students
- Columbia ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 706 students
- Columbia ElementaryPerris, CA · 704 students
- Columbia Elementary SchoolMadison, AL · 701 students
- Columbia ElementaryLancaster, CA · 620 students
Nearby schools
- CORNER LAKE MIDDLE0.9 mi · 767
- EAST RIVER HIGH1.5 mi · 2,026
- CASTLE CREEK ELEMENTARY2.9 mi · 555
- EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY3.0 mi · 432
- CAMELOT ELEMENTARY3.1 mi · 545
- TIMBER SPRINGS MIDDLE3.1 mi · 1,067
Frequently asked questions
About COLUMBIA ELEMENTARYHow many students attend COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY?
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 489 students in grades PK-05.
Is COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 16.3:1 students per teacher at COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY.
How diverse is COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY?
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 45% White, 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY public or private?
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ORANGE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.