KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY

KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in WINTER PARK, Florida, one of the schools within ORANGE, with 344 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY reports that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 33% Hispanic, 19% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at school resources, KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 49.4%, a residual of +2.0 points.

In the area at large, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

Nearest neighbor: PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 458 students in 2018 compared to 344 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 24% to 33% across the same window.

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