JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE

As a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in ORLANDO, Florida, JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE hosts 872 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by ORANGE.

Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 18% Black, 6% White. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.3%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of -13.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 1,016 (now 872). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 66% to 73%.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.