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What's something LANCASTER ELEMENTARY does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
646
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144001420
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY
6700 SHERYL ANN DR, ORLANDO, FL 32809 · (407) 858-3131 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL646 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of Florida public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
441 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY→JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE
Based on published attendance-zone data from ORANGE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
37.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.3pp since 2023
Math
51.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +12.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.2% | 51.7% |
| 2023-24 | 33.9% | 39.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LANCASTER ELEMENTARY
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY's state test result (40.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANCASTER ELEMENTARY this school | 646 | 68.3% | 40.2% |
| MORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 731 | 67.3% | 36.6% |
| BLANCHE H. DAUGHTREY ELEMENTARY BRADENTON | 719 | 66.5% | 35.5% |
| GREENACRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREENACRES | 773 | 70.5% | 61.9% |
| COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 597 | 66.2% | 33.1% |
| CHICKASAW ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 551 | 68.1% | 47.3% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LANCASTER ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.2% | #1,794 of 2,136 | #142 of 157 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #1,476 of 2,149 ▲ 376 | #108 of 159 ▲ 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #1,883 of 2,149 ▲ 7 | #144 of 159 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 646 | #877 of 2,267 | #54 of 168 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #1,569 of 2,077 | #142 of 159 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.5% | #1,768 of 2,108 | #143 of 159 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.3% | #528 of 2,188 | #31 of 162 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.6% | #510 of 1,374 | #50 of 112 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
646
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 763
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 646 | 37 | 17.5:1 | 68% (441) |
| 2023-24 | 574 | 30 | 19.1:1 | 76% (437) |
| 2022-23 | 560 | 30 | 18.7:1 | 80% (450) |
| 2020-21 | 653 | 47 | 13.9:1 | 75% (492) |
| 2017-18 | 803 | 53 | 15.2:1 | 79% (635) |
| 2015-16 | 905 | 58 | 15.6:1 | 100% (902) |
| 2010-11 | 758 | 49 | 15.5:1 | 93% (706) |
| 2000-01 | 796 | 52 | 15.3:1 | 82% (650) |
| 1990-91 | 763 | 48 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LANCASTER ELEMENTARY.
About LANCASTER ELEMENTARY
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is a public mid-sized elementary school in ORLANDO, Florida. Federal data show 646 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
In ORANGE, 272 schools enroll a combined 207,778 students.
The share of Hispanic students at LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is 80%, a majority. The remaining students are 14% Black, 3% White, and 2% multiracial. Census figures show Orange County is about 34% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 34, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 17.5:1 is based on 37 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. In all, 68% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Orange County average 39%.
On the allk12 Grade, LANCASTER ELEMENTARY lands at C-, ahead of 15% of Florida public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 47.0% for LANCASTER ELEMENTARY. The school posts 40.2%, 6.7 points below the prediction.
Looking at the county, Orange County, the median household earns about $79,719 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting LANCASTER ELEMENTARY, Orange County has 286 public schools.
JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 47.1% on proficiency, and LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is below that at 40.2%.
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 653 to 646. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.9:1 to 17.5:1.
On allk12, people connected to LANCASTER ELEMENTARY can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,471,937
Census ACS
Median income
$79,719
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
286
216,813 students
Quick facts
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Other Lancaster Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Lancaster Elementary. LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is the largest of the 7.
- Lancaster ElementaryKilmarnock, VA · 542 students
- Lancaster Elementary SchoolEL PASO, TX · 517 students
- Lancaster Elementary SchoolLancaster, KY · 462 students
- Lancaster ElementaryMilwaukee, WI · 316 students
- Lancaster Elementary SchoolLancaster, NH · 310 students
Nearby schools
- JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE0.1 mi · 872
- WINEGARD ELEMENTARY0.5 mi · 650
- OAK RIDGE HIGH0.9 mi · 2,553
- CHANCERY HIGH CHARTER1.0 mi · 438
- CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH1.1 mi · 615
- CORNERSTONE ACADEMY CHARTER1.1 mi · 1,094
Frequently asked questions
About LANCASTER ELEMENTARYHow large is LANCASTER ELEMENTARY?
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 646 students in grades PK-05.
Is LANCASTER ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does LANCASTER ELEMENTARY have?
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at LANCASTER ELEMENTARY?
At LANCASTER ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 3% White, 80% Hispanic, 14% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is LANCASTER ELEMENTARY public or private?
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ORANGE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.