HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 10393 SEIDEL RD, in WINTER GARDEN, Florida, HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL is a roomy secondary school that educates 2,685 students (grades 9 through 12), run under ORANGE. That puts it 159% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.

ORANGE comprises 272 schools with combined enrollment of 207,778 students; HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 36% White, 6% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.3%; this one delivers 65.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, 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), HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PANTHER LAKE ELEMENTARY, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 73.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

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