DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY

Located at 1200 GASTON FOSTER RD, in ORLANDO, Florida, DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY is a compact K-5 school that instructs 390 students (grades K through 5), overseen by ORANGE. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY sits 35% smaller than that benchmark.

DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY is one of 272 schools operated by ORANGE, a district that serves 207,778 students overall.

Demographically, DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY lists that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 23% White, 12% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 62% of students at DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Orange County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 54.0%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PASSPORT CHARTER, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 40.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY has grew 3%, going from 380 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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