PASSPORT CHARTER

PASSPORT CHARTER operates as a micro-enrollment elementary-level community in ORLANDO, Florida, run under ORANGE. Current enrollment sits at 181 students spanning grades K through 8. That puts it 70% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, PASSPORT CHARTER is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PASSPORT CHARTER records that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 9% White, 4% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at school resources, PASSPORT CHARTER records 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PASSPORT CHARTER tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PASSPORT CHARTER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 44.7%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. PASSPORT CHARTER is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

DOVER SHORES ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PASSPORT CHARTER. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PASSPORT CHARTER at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 42.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site. PASSPORT CHARTER is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 178 students in 2018 compared to 181 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 78% to 85% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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