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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at LOVELL ELEMENTARY this year?
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Enrollment
655
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144001417
LOVELL ELEMENTARY
815 ROGER WILLIAMS RD, APOPKA, FL 32703 · (407) 884-2235 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL655 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
431 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 | 34 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 115 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (111).
Student demographics
47%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
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
34.2%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.5pp since 2023
Math
48.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.2% | 48.7% |
| 2023-24 | 36.7% | 46.4% |
% 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
42.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 LOVELL ELEMENTARY
LOVELL ELEMENTARY's state test result (42.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOVELL ELEMENTARY this school | 655 | 65.8% | 42.2% |
| MELALEUCA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 664 | 66.4% | 41.5% |
| MILL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 610 | 67.0% | 31.8% |
| WINEGARD ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 650 | 64.3% | 37.2% |
| MORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 731 | 67.3% | 36.6% |
| THACKER AVENUE ELEMENTARY FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES KISSIMMEE | 661 | 65.1% | 35.4% |
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 LOVELL ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #1,712 of 2,136 | #134 of 157 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #1,623 of 2,149 ▼ 58 | #118 of 159 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.2% | #1,967 of 2,149 ▼ 190 | #152 of 159 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 655 | #855 of 2,267 | #52 of 168 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #789 of 2,077 | #59 of 159 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.9% | #1,479 of 2,108 | #119 of 159 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.8% | #648 of 2,188 | #41 of 162 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.5% | #720 of 1,374 | #64 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
655
-3 (0%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 850
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 655 | 43 | 15.2:1 | 66% (431) |
| 2023-24 | 638 | 41 | 15.6:1 | 73% (464) |
| 2022-23 | 643 | 38 | 16.9:1 | 76% (486) |
| 2020-21 | 658 | 43 | 15.3:1 | 71% (470) |
| 2017-18 | 766 | 46 | 16.6:1 | 80% (614) |
| 2015-16 | 730 | 46 | 15.9:1 | 100% (727) |
| 2010-11 | 673 | 45 | 15.0:1 | 92% (620) |
| 2000-01 | 701 | 45 | 15.6:1 | 78% (550) |
| 1990-91 | 850 | 42 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LOVELL ELEMENTARY.
About LOVELL ELEMENTARY
LOVELL ELEMENTARY, located in APOPKA, Florida, is a medium-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 655 students, from pre-K through 5.
LOVELL ELEMENTARY is part of ORANGE, where 272 schools serve 207,778 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at LOVELL ELEMENTARY, with 70% of enrollment. Other groups make up 17% Black and 10% White. Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 47% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at the school number 43 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.2:1. This ratio sits 2.2 below the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Roughly 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 39% average for public schools in Orange County, the school's rate is higher.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, LOVELL ELEMENTARY would be expected to post about 48.2%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 42.2%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Orange County show that the median household income is $79,719, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Besides LOVELL ELEMENTARY, Orange County has 285 other public schools.
The closest other public school is SHEELER HIGH CHARTER, about 0.7 miles away. LOVELL ELEMENTARY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. LOVELL ELEMENTARY ranks 6th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 42.2% against a local average of 47.1%.
Federal data place LOVELL ELEMENTARY in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 658 students in 2020-21 and 655 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in ORANGE
- APOPKA HIGHHigh · 3,446 students
- TIMBER CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,383 students
- WINTER PARK HIGHHigh · 3,277 students
- COLONIAL HIGHHigh · 3,239 students
- WINDERMERE HIGHHigh · 3,217 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,127 students
Other schools in APOPKA
- APOPKA HIGHHigh · 3,446 students
- WEKIVA HIGHHigh · 2,148 students
- WOLF LAKE MIDDLEMiddle · 1,146 students
- KELLY PARK SCHOOLElementary · 1,073 students
- PIEDMONT LAKES MIDDLEMiddle · 863 students
- APOPKA MIDDLEMiddle · 858 students
Other Lovell Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Lovell Elementary. LOVELL ELEMENTARY is the largest of the 2.
- Lovell ElementaryLovell, WY · 309 students
Nearby schools
- SHEELER HIGH CHARTER0.7 mi · 333
- AMIKIDS ORLANDO1.0 mi · 26
- LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY1.6 mi · 631
- CLAY SPRINGS ELEMENTARY1.7 mi · 626
- PHILLIS WHEATLEY ELEMENTARY1.9 mi · 407
- APOPKA MIDDLE1.9 mi · 858
Frequently asked questions
About LOVELL ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at LOVELL ELEMENTARY?
LOVELL ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 655 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does LOVELL ELEMENTARY serve?
LOVELL ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at LOVELL ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at LOVELL ELEMENTARY.
What is the racial breakdown of students at LOVELL ELEMENTARY?
At LOVELL ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 10% White, 70% Hispanic, 17% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees LOVELL ELEMENTARY?
LOVELL ELEMENTARY is overseen by ORANGE in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.