EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY

Located at 3971 N TANNER RD, in ORLANDO, Florida, EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY is a small elementary-level community that hosts 432 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by ORANGE. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY sits 28% below that benchmark.

EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY is one of 272 schools operated by ORANGE, a district that enrolls 207,778 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 35% White, 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has decreased 31% since 2018, when it stood at 630 (now 432). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 35% to 48% over that span.

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