PALMETTO ELEMENTARY

Set in ORLANDO, Florida, PALMETTO ELEMENTARY is a high-enrollment primary school, one of the schools within ORANGE. It works with 1,006 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 67% above typical.

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

On the student-mix side, PALMETTO ELEMENTARY lists that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 39% Hispanic, 4% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PALMETTO ELEMENTARY is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.9%; PALMETTO ELEMENTARY posts 32.8%, -15.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. PALMETTO ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

WESTRIDGE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PALMETTO ELEMENTARY. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PALMETTO ELEMENTARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. PALMETTO ELEMENTARY's enrollment has grew 6% since 2018, when it stood at 949 (now 1,006). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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