PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY

PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY operates as a moderately sized elementary school in ORLANDO, Florida, one of the schools within ORANGE. Current enrollment sits at 671 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%); the rest reads as 7% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 75% of students at PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.7%; this one delivers 41.5%.

In the broader community, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is ROBINSWOOD MIDDLE, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 43.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY has edged up 5%, going from 640 students in 2018 to 671 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 7% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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