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HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY
HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY, a medium-sized primary school in ORLANDO, Florida, one of the schools within ORANGE, teaches 749 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY sits 24% above that benchmark.
Across the 272 schools in ORANGE (207,778 students total), HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school shows 19% White, 6% Black, 5% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of +2.1 points.
In the surrounding community, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT HUNTERS CREEK is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 63.3%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Over the past 7-year window. HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 863 (now 749).
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