SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE

SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE is a middle school of mid-tier scale in ORLANDO, Florida, operated by ORANGE, hosting 1,006 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 27% above typical.

ORANGE comprises 272 schools with combined enrollment of 207,778 students; SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE is among them.

On demographics, SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%; the rest comes out to 14% Black, 10% White, 10% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE records 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.1%.

Zooming out to the county, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE is one.

WETHERBEE 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 SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.

SOUTH CREEK MIDDLE operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 1,101 students in 2018 compared to 1,006 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 14% to 10%. Class-load math has loosened: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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