LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY

LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY operates as a mid-sized elementary-level community in WINTER GARDEN, Florida, overseen by ORANGE. Current enrollment sits at 549 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

ORANGE comprises 272 schools with combined enrollment of 207,778 students; LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY is among them.

On demographics, LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY lists that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 21% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.6%, the actual is 82.8%, a residual of +10.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Orange County) shows that median household earnings sit near $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

ESE TRANSITION is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 74.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY has increased 3%, going from 532 students in 2018 to 549 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged down from 11% to 7%.

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