KELLY PARK SCHOOL

KELLY PARK SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of sprawling scale in APOPKA, Florida, run under ORANGE, caters to 1,073 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so KELLY PARK SCHOOL sits 78% larger than that benchmark.

KELLY PARK SCHOOL is one of 272 schools operated by ORANGE, a district that instructs 207,778 students overall.

In terms of who attends, KELLY PARK SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 21% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting KELLY PARK SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, KELLY PARK SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.3%; this one delivers 70.7%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which KELLY PARK SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is WOLF LAKE MIDDLE, roughly 1.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KELLY PARK SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KELLY PARK SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 59.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

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