LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY

LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY is one of the mid-sized primary schools in ORLANDO, Florida, part of ORANGE, with 565 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY records that 80% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 2% White, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 59% of students at LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Orange County's rate of about 39%.

After controlling for student poverty, LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.8%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of -7.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 GEM ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PRAIRIE LAKE ELEMENTARY, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY has ticked down 21%, going from 714 students in 2018 to 565 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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