PINAR ELEMENTARY
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PINAR ELEMENTARY
As a tight-knit K-5 school in ORLANDO, Florida, PINAR ELEMENTARY serves 342 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by ORANGE. That puts it 43% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.
ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. PINAR ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, PINAR ELEMENTARY logs that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 14% Black, 10% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at PINAR ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Orange County's rate of about 39%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PINAR ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 52.1%, a residual of +4.4 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), PINAR ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is LIBERTY MIDDLE, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PINAR ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.
PINAR ELEMENTARY operates from a commuter-belt location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PINAR ELEMENTARY has fell 14%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 342 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 79% to 74% over that span.
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