OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL

OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a large combined-grade school in KISSIMMEE, Florida, run under OSCEOLA. Current enrollment sits at 1,158 students spanning grades K through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 353 students each, so OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL sits 228% bigger than that benchmark.

Within OSCEOLA, which oversees 83 schools and 75,388 students, OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder looks like 16% White, 9% Asian, 8% Black, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL reports 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 28.9:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 61.8%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Osceola County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,637, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 88 public schools in Osceola County (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students).

Nearest neighbor: VICTORY CHARTER SCHOOL K-5, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site. As a public charter, OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. OSCEOLA SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 323% since 2018, when it stood at 274 (now 1,158). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 20% to 16%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 28.9:1 today.

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