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CONWAY ELEMENTARY
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CONWAY ELEMENTARY
CONWAY ELEMENTARY is one of the tight-knit elementary campuss in ORLANDO, Florida, overseen by ORANGE, with 426 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so CONWAY ELEMENTARY sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 272 schools in ORANGE (207,778 students total), CONWAY ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, CONWAY ELEMENTARY shows that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 19% White, 17% Black, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.
On the income-and-resources front, CONWAY ELEMENTARY lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CONWAY ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of -0.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. CONWAY ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).
CONWAY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CONWAY ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.
CONWAY ELEMENTARY operates from an outer-ring location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 426 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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