Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
CORNER LAKE MIDDLE
School pathway
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CORNER LAKE MIDDLE
As a mid-sized intermediate school in ORLANDO, Florida, CORNER LAKE MIDDLE caters to 767 students from grades 6 through 8, part of ORANGE.
ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. CORNER LAKE MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, CORNER LAKE MIDDLE records that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 36% White, 12% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. The state averages about 19.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 39%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CORNER LAKE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 52.5%, a residual of -2.7 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Orange County) records that median household income runs about $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which CORNER LAKE MIDDLE is one.
EAST RIVER HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CORNER LAKE MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CORNER LAKE MIDDLE at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 64.7%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 996 students in 2018 compared to 767 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 42% to 36% over that span.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Orange County at a glance
View full county profileQuick facts
Related schools
- 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
- 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
- EAST RIVER HIGH0.6 mi · 2,026
- COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 489
- CASTLE CREEK ELEMENTARY2.2 mi · 555
- TIMBER SPRINGS MIDDLE2.2 mi · 1,067
- CAMELOT ELEMENTARY2.2 mi · 545
- ECON RIVER HIGH CHARTER2.7 mi · 327