LOCKHART ELEMENTARY

LOCKHART ELEMENTARY is an elementary school of modestly sized scale in ORLANDO, Florida, one of the schools within ORANGE, caters to 452 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, LOCKHART ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LOCKHART ELEMENTARY logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 17% Hispanic, 9% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, LOCKHART ELEMENTARY has 32 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. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Orange County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, LOCKHART ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.6%; this one delivers 44.2%.

In the surrounding community, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which LOCKHART ELEMENTARY is one.

POSITIVE PATHWAYS TRANSITION CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LOCKHART ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LOCKHART ELEMENTARY has changed only slightly, going from 442 students in 2018 to 452 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 16% to 9%.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.