SORRENTO ELEMENTARY

Located at 24605 WALLICK RD, in SORRENTO, Florida, SORRENTO ELEMENTARY is a moderately sized primary school that works with 841 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by LAKE. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so SORRENTO ELEMENTARY sits 39% above that benchmark.

LAKE comprises 60 schools with combined enrollment of 47,997 students; SORRENTO ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SORRENTO ELEMENTARY logs that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, SORRENTO ELEMENTARY has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SORRENTO ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 56.6%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Around the school, census data for Lake County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,161 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lake County's 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,997 students), SORRENTO ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

ROUND LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around SORRENTO ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SORRENTO ELEMENTARY at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 61.5%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. SORRENTO ELEMENTARY's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 832 (now 841). White enrollment moved from 61% to 55% across the same window.

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