LAKE COMO SCHOOL

Set in ORLANDO, Florida, LAKE COMO SCHOOL is an expansive elementary campus, one of the schools within ORANGE. It teaches 928 students across grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 54% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. LAKE COMO SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, LAKE COMO SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 34% Hispanic, 25% Black, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting LAKE COMO SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 45% of students at LAKE COMO SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAKE COMO SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 58.9%, a residual of +0.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), LAKE COMO SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAKE COMO SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LAKE COMO SCHOOL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.5%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 154%: 365 students in 2018 compared to 928 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 18% to 25%. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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