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PINELOCH 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 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 PINELOCH ELEMENTARY
Located at 3101 WOODS AVE, in ORLANDO, Florida, PINELOCH ELEMENTARY is a moderately sized elementary school that teaches 726 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within ORANGE. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so PINELOCH ELEMENTARY sits 20% larger than that benchmark.
Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, PINELOCH ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.
Demographically, PINELOCH ELEMENTARY shows that 68% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.
On the resource side, PINELOCH ELEMENTARY reports 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PINELOCH ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PINELOCH ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.5%; this one delivers 42.9%.
Zooming out to the county, 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 roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PINELOCH ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).
Nearest neighbor: MEMORIAL MIDDLE, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PINELOCH ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PINELOCH ELEMENTARY has fell 16%, going from 860 students in 2018 to 726 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 34% to 26%.
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