JONES HIGH

JONES HIGH is a high school of expansive scale in ORLANDO, Florida, run under ORANGE, hosting 1,653 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 60% 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; JONES HIGH is among them.

In terms of who attends, JONES HIGH records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%); the rest looks like 11% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Orange County's rate of about 39%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JONES HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.1%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of -1.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household income runs about $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which JONES HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is ORANGE CENTER ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JONES HIGH. On composite proficiency, JONES HIGH comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JONES HIGH has rose 5%, going from 1,577 students in 2018 to 1,653 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 90% to 85%. Class-load math has rose: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 in 2025.

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