DILLARD STREET ELEMENTARY

DILLARD STREET ELEMENTARY is a compact K-5 school in WINTER GARDEN, Florida, part of ORANGE. The school serves 466 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 604.

ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. DILLARD STREET ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DILLARD STREET ELEMENTARY lists that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 36% White, 18% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, DILLARD STREET ELEMENTARY has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting DILLARD STREET ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DILLARD STREET ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.7%, the actual is 49.8%, a residual of -8.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that median household earnings sit near $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 DILLARD STREET ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: WILLIAM S MAXEY ELEMENTARY, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DILLARD STREET ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DILLARD STREET ELEMENTARY has fell 25%, going from 620 students in 2018 to 466 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 50% to 42%.

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