COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY

COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY, a modestly sized elementary school in ORLANDO, Florida, operated by ORANGE, teaches 489 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows median household income runs about $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: CORNER LAKE MIDDLE, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 574 students in 2018 compared to 489 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 37% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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