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Enrollment
426
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144001393
CONWAY ELEMENTARY
4100 LAKE MARGARET DR, ORLANDO, FL 32812 · (407) 249-6310 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
270 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 | 39 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
60%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
47.9%
FL avg 56.7% . -1.4pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.9% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.3% | 50.2% |
% 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
49.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 CONWAY ELEMENTARY
CONWAY ELEMENTARY's state test result (49.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONWAY ELEMENTARY this school | 426 | 63.4% | 49.1% |
| DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 390 | 61.8% | 54.0% |
| LAWTON CHILES ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 503 | 65.2% | 61.6% |
| CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEWISTON | 547 | 64.9% | 60.3% |
| LABELLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LABELLE | 446 | 64.1% | 42.0% |
| SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 470 | 59.1% | 55.4% |
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 CONWAY ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.1% | #1,376 of 2,136 | #106 of 157 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,606 of 2,149 ▼ 236 | #117 of 159 ▼ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #1,407 of 2,149 ▼ 198 | #103 of 159 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #1,697 of 2,267 | #135 of 168 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #26 of 2,077 | #1 of 159 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.9% | #888 of 2,108 | #74 of 159 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.4% | #769 of 2,188 | #49 of 162 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.3% | #349 of 1,374 | #33 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
426
-59 (-12%) vs 2020
-44% since 1990-91, when it was 761
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 426 | 37 | 11.5:1 | 63% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 449 | 40 | 11.2:1 | 68% (305) |
| 2022-23 | 489 | 38 | 12.9:1 | 70% (344) |
| 2020-21 | 485 | 43 | 11.3:1 | 64% (309) |
| 2017-18 | 563 | 39 | 14.4:1 | 66% (372) |
| 2015-16 | 535 | 39 | 13.7:1 | 99% (532) |
| 2010-11 | 580 | 41 | 14.2:1 | 73% (423) |
| 2000-01 | 756 | 44 | 17.2:1 | 53% (399) |
| 1990-91 | 761 | 43 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CONWAY ELEMENTARY.
About CONWAY ELEMENTARY
CONWAY ELEMENTARY is one of the public schools in ORLANDO, Florida. It is a small elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 426 students. Against the 604-student average for elementary schools in Florida, enrollment here is 29% lower.
ORANGE runs 272 schools with a combined 207,778 students. CONWAY ELEMENTARY is one of them.
Hispanic students account for 58% of enrollment at CONWAY ELEMENTARY. Other groups make up 19% White, 17% Black, and 6% multiracial. Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at CONWAY ELEMENTARY belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 60%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1 at CONWAY ELEMENTARY, with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among elementary schools in Florida, the typical ratio is 17.5:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 63% of enrollment. It compares with 39% for public schools in Orange County.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For CONWAY ELEMENTARY, the prediction is 49.4% and the result is 49.1%.
In Orange County (population about 1,471,937), median household income is about $79,719, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CONWAY ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County, which together enroll about 216,813 students.
The closest other public school is CONWAY MIDDLE, about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: CONWAY ELEMENTARY ranks 5th of 7 nearby schools, at 49.1% versus a 50.4% average.
The NCES locale for CONWAY ELEMENTARY is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
CONWAY ELEMENTARY saw enrollment fall 12% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
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- 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 Conway Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Conway Elementary. CONWAY ELEMENTARY is the 4th largest of the 6.
- Conway ElementaryFredericksburg, VA · 904 students
- Conway ElementaryConway, SC · 583 students
- Conway ElementaryEscondido, CA · 547 students
- CONWAY ELEMENTARYST LOUIS, MO · 392 students
- Conway Elementary SchoolConway, NH · 187 students
Nearby schools
- CONWAY MIDDLE0.5 mi · 735
- JUVENILE DETENTION1.1 mi · 69
- PERSHING SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,057
- LAKE GEORGE ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 448
- VILLAGE1.5 mi · 6
- SHENANDOAH ELEMENTARY1.5 mi · 403
Frequently asked questions
About CONWAY ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at CONWAY ELEMENTARY?
CONWAY ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 426 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does CONWAY ELEMENTARY serve?
CONWAY ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does CONWAY ELEMENTARY have?
CONWAY ELEMENTARY employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1.
What is the student diversity at CONWAY ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at CONWAY ELEMENTARY are roughly 19% White, 58% Hispanic, 17% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees CONWAY ELEMENTARY?
CONWAY ELEMENTARY is overseen by ORANGE in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.