MAYNARD EVANS HIGH

As a sprawling 9-12 campus in ORLANDO, Florida, MAYNARD EVANS HIGH educates 2,345 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within ORANGE. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 127% bigger than typical.

MAYNARD EVANS HIGH is one of 272 schools operated by ORANGE, a district that works with 207,778 students overall.

Looking at the student body, MAYNARD EVANS HIGH reports that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 15% Hispanic. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, MAYNARD EVANS HIGH shows 103 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting MAYNARD EVANS HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MAYNARD EVANS HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.5%; this one delivers 41.1%.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows median household income runs about $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), MAYNARD EVANS HIGH is one campus in the mix.

UCP PINE HILLS CHARTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MAYNARD EVANS HIGH ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 43.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 2,448 students in 2018 compared to 2,345 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

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