ORLANDO SCIENCE MIDDLE HIGH CHARTER

Set in ORLANDO, Florida, ORLANDO SCIENCE MIDDLE HIGH CHARTER is an expansive four-year high school, operated by ORANGE. It teaches 1,591 students across grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 54% larger than typical.

ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. ORLANDO SCIENCE MIDDLE HIGH CHARTER is one of those campuses.

Demographically, ORLANDO SCIENCE MIDDLE HIGH CHARTER records that 37% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 22% Hispanic, 21% White, 15% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 5% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ORLANDO SCIENCE MIDDLE HIGH CHARTER has 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Orange County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, ORLANDO SCIENCE MIDDLE HIGH CHARTER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.7%; this one delivers 85.4%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household income runs about $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), ORLANDO SCIENCE MIDDLE HIGH CHARTER is one campus in the mix.

LAKE SILVER ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ORLANDO SCIENCE MIDDLE HIGH CHARTER comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. ORLANDO SCIENCE MIDDLE HIGH CHARTER operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 98%: 803 students in 2018 compared to 1,591 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 22% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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