ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY

ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in APOPKA, Florida, overseen by ORANGE, with 682 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY is one of 272 schools operated by ORANGE, a district that instructs 207,778 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% White, 17% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at school resources, ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY logs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 48.2%, a residual of -3.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Orange County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WOLF LAKE MIDDLE, roughly 1.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 57.7%.

ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 829 students in 2018 compared to 682 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 38% to 27% over that span.

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