ODYSSEY MIDDLE

ODYSSEY MIDDLE is a moderately sized junior high in ORLANDO, Florida, one of the schools within ORANGE. The school serves 897 students in grades 6 through 8.

ORANGE comprises 272 schools with combined enrollment of 207,778 students; ODYSSEY MIDDLE is among them.

On the student-mix side, ODYSSEY MIDDLE records that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 13% Black, 13% White, 6% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, ODYSSEY MIDDLE records 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ODYSSEY MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.0%, the actual is 54.7%, a residual of -5.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which ODYSSEY MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is VISTA LAKES ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ODYSSEY MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ODYSSEY MIDDLE has stayed largely flat, going from 892 students in 2018 to 897 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 58% to 66% across the same window.

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