KEENES CROSSING ELEMENTARY

KEENES CROSSING ELEMENTARY operates as a well-populated elementary campus in WINDERMERE, Florida, operated by ORANGE. Current enrollment sits at 954 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 58% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

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

On the student-mix side, KEENES CROSSING ELEMENTARY shows that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 29% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 42% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting KEENES CROSSING ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 14% of students at KEENES CROSSING ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KEENES CROSSING ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.1%, the actual is 81.4%, a residual of +7.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), KEENES CROSSING ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BRIDGEWATER MIDDLE, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KEENES CROSSING ELEMENTARY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 75.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. KEENES CROSSING ELEMENTARY's enrollment has decreased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 1,252 (now 954). White enrollment moved from 61% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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