ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY

ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY is a reasonably sized K-5 school in ORLANDO, Florida, part of ORANGE. The school caters to 557 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY logs that nearly all students (80%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 11% White, 8% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Orange County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of -8.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household earnings sit near $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.7%.

ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY has changed only slightly, going from 570 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 86% to 80%.

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