FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in KISSIMMEE, Florida, operated by OSCEOLA. Current enrollment sits at 765 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

OSCEOLA runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 75,388 students. FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 12% White, 10% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 47% 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, On a poverty-adjusted basis, FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.9%; actual is 32.1%, a gap of -25.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Osceola County reports that median household income runs about $72,637, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Osceola County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students), FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT TAPESTRY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 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), FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.0%.

FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FLORA RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 20%, going from 959 students in 2018 to 765 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 78% to 72% over that span.

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