MT. DORA MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in MOUNT DORA, Florida, MT. DORA MIDDLE SCHOOL serves 845 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by LAKE.

Across the 60 schools in LAKE (47,997 students total), MT. DORA MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, MT. DORA MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 33% Hispanic, 16% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MT. DORA MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.7%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Lake County put the typical household earns roughly $73,161 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Lake County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,997 students), of which MT. DORA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

MT. DORA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MT. DORA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MT. DORA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MT. DORA MIDDLE SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 854 students in 2018 to 845 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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