ORLANDO GIFTED ACADEMY

ORLANDO GIFTED ACADEMY, a tight-knit intermediate school in ORLANDO, Florida, part of ORANGE, works with 442 students, covering grades 2 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 44% smaller than the state mean of about 794.

ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. ORLANDO GIFTED ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, ORLANDO GIFTED ACADEMY records that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 19% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, ORLANDO GIFTED ACADEMY logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 12% 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ORLANDO GIFTED ACADEMY is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 75.2%; this one delivers 98.1%, a residual of +22.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. ORLANDO GIFTED ACADEMY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

HILLCREST ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ORLANDO GIFTED ACADEMY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 69.9%.

ORLANDO GIFTED ACADEMY operates from a metropolitan location.

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