ISLAND VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ISLAND VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in KISSIMMEE, Florida, run under OSCEOLA, with 786 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

Within OSCEOLA, which oversees 83 schools and 75,388 students, ISLAND VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, ISLAND VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 26% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Osceola County's rate of about 52%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ISLAND VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.2%; this one delivers 42.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Osceola County put the typical household earns roughly $72,637 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Osceola County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students), of which ISLAND VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is CELEBRATION HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ISLAND VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ISLAND VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 57.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

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