ORLANDO SCIENCE ELEMENTARY CHARTER

Set in ORLANDO, Florida, ORLANDO SCIENCE ELEMENTARY CHARTER is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, operated by ORANGE. It serves 721 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 272 schools in ORANGE (207,778 students total), ORLANDO SCIENCE ELEMENTARY CHARTER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ORLANDO SCIENCE ELEMENTARY CHARTER shows that 34% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 19% White, 19% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 5% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, ORLANDO SCIENCE ELEMENTARY CHARTER lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ORLANDO SCIENCE ELEMENTARY CHARTER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.9%, the actual is 81.8%, a residual of +12.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. ORLANDO SCIENCE ELEMENTARY CHARTER is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

ORLANDO SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL K-8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ORLANDO SCIENCE ELEMENTARY CHARTER ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.0%.

ORLANDO SCIENCE ELEMENTARY CHARTER operates from a downtown location. ORLANDO SCIENCE ELEMENTARY CHARTER is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 25%: 578 students in 2018 compared to 721 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 19% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.