PRAIRIE LAKE ELEMENTARY

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in ORLANDO, Florida, PRAIRIE LAKE ELEMENTARY enrolls 776 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of ORANGE. Enrollment runs roughly 28% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

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

Looking at the student body, PRAIRIE LAKE ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 22% Hispanic, 16% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PRAIRIE LAKE ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 52.1%.

Around the school, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. PRAIRIE LAKE ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PRAIRIE LAKE ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PRAIRIE LAKE ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 48.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. PRAIRIE LAKE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has decreased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 837 (now 776). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 21% to 16%.

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