LAKE SYBELIA ELEMENTARY

LAKE SYBELIA ELEMENTARY, a small K-5 school in MAITLAND, Florida, overseen by ORANGE, instructs 437 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 28% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

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

On demographics, LAKE SYBELIA ELEMENTARY lists that the largest single group is Black at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 32% Hispanic, 29% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the resource side, On paper, LAKE SYBELIA ELEMENTARY has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 50% of students are eligible 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LAKE SYBELIA ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 57.0%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), LAKE SYBELIA ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LAKE ORIENTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAKE SYBELIA ELEMENTARY at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 60.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKE SYBELIA ELEMENTARY has shrank 19%, going from 542 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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