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LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY
Set in ORLANDO, Florida, LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY is an expansive K-5 school, overseen by ORANGE. It instructs 1,220 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY sits 102% larger than that benchmark.
ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 34% White, 12% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY shows 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.6%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household earnings sit near $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).
LUMINARY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.1%.
LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY operates from a downtown location.
Over the past 7-year window. LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY's enrollment has edged up 89% since 2018, when it stood at 646 (now 1,220). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 42% to 34% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.
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