LOCKHART MIDDLE

Located at 3411 DOCTOR LOVE RD, in ORLANDO, Florida, LOCKHART MIDDLE is a low-enrollment 6-8 campus that works with 660 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by ORANGE.

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

Demographically, LOCKHART MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Hispanic, 8% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, LOCKHART MIDDLE has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting LOCKHART MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at LOCKHART MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LOCKHART MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 39.1%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household income runs about $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is POSITIVE PATHWAYS TRANSITION CENTER, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LOCKHART MIDDLE comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 854 students in 2018 compared to 660 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment climbed from 60% to 65% over that span.

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