DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY

Set in APOPKA, Florida, DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY is an average-sized primary school, run under ORANGE. It educates 674 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 272 schools in ORANGE (207,778 students total), DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY shows that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% Black, 16% White, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 56% of students at DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Orange County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.3%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $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. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: APOPKA MIDDLE, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 47.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 21%: 848 students in 2018 compared to 674 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 29% to 16%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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