HAMLIN MIDDLE

Set in WINTER GARDEN, Florida, HAMLIN MIDDLE is a middle-of-the-pack middle school, one of the schools within ORANGE. It caters to 953 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 20% bigger than the state mean of about 794.

Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, HAMLIN MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, HAMLIN MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 35% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 42% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, HAMLIN MIDDLE has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Orange County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, HAMLIN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.8%, the actual is 72.2%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the area at large, Orange County reports that 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. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which HAMLIN MIDDLE is one.

HAMLIN ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HAMLIN MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HAMLIN MIDDLE at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 76.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.