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What's the one class at ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE every student should take?
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Enrollment
776
Middle
DISTRICT 906 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144001428
ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE
6000 ROBERTO CLEMENTE RD, ORLANDO, FL 32807 · (407) 249-6430 · Orange County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL776 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.4:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
443 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
38.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
45.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
776
-208 (-21%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 20.5:1
% White
9%
was 9%
% Hispanic
72%
was 74%
% Black
13%
was 10%
% Asian
4%
was 5%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE
As a mid-sized middle school in ORLANDO, Florida, ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE educates 776 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by ORANGE.
ORANGE comprises 272 schools with combined enrollment of 207,778 students; ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE is among them.
On the student-mix side, ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE lists that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 13% Black, 9% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 39%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.6%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of -10.9 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Orange County put 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), ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 43.5%.
ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE operates from a metropolitan location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE has ticked down 21%, going from 984 students in 2018 to 776 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.
On allk12, members of the ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,471,937
Census ACS
Median income
$79,719
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
286
216,813 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ORANGE
- APOPKA HIGHHigh · 3,446 students
- TIMBER CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,383 students
- WINTER PARK HIGHHigh · 3,277 students
- COLONIAL HIGHHigh · 3,239 students
- WINDERMERE HIGHHigh · 3,217 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,127 students
Other schools in ORLANDO
- FLORIDA VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,331 students
- TIMBER CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,383 students
- COLONIAL HIGHHigh · 3,239 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,127 students
- LAKE NONA HIGHHigh · 2,974 students
- DR. PHILLIPS HIGHHigh · 2,964 students
Nearby schools
- ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY0.1 mi · 557
- BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY CHARTER0.4 mi · 299
- CHICKASAW ELEMENTARY0.6 mi · 551
- ACCELERATION EAST1.0 mi · 212
- PASSPORT CHARTER1.1 mi · 181
- AZALEA PARK ELEMENTARY1.2 mi · 470
Frequently asked questions
About ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLEHow many students attend ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE?
ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE enrolls approximately 776 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE serve?
ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE is approximately 17.6:1 (44 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE?
At ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE, the student body is approximately 9% White, 72% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE public or private?
ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE is a public K-12 school, overseen by ORANGE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.