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SHINGLE CREEK 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 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY
SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in ORLANDO, Florida, one of the schools within ORANGE. Current enrollment sits at 633 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY lists that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 43% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 20% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 39%.
With demographic context factored in, SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.3%; this one delivers 37.5%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate 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%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.
MILLENNIA ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.4%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHINGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY has contracted 25%, going from 843 students in 2018 to 633 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.
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