INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY

Set in WINTER GARDEN, Florida, INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY is a mid-sized primary school, operated by ORANGE. It works with 889 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY sits 47% above that benchmark.

Across the 272 schools in ORANGE (207,778 students total), INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY lists that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY reports 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.4%, the actual is 77.6%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

BRIDGEWATER MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 75.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 1,036 (now 889). The White share of enrollment fell from 57% to 44% over that span.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.