SUN BLAZE ELEMENTARY

As a sizable elementary campus in ORLANDO, Florida, SUN BLAZE ELEMENTARY works with 1,150 students from grades K through 5, run under ORANGE. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 90% larger than typical.

ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. SUN BLAZE ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SUN BLAZE ELEMENTARY logs that 55% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 25% White, 8% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at school resources, SUN BLAZE ELEMENTARY logs 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, SUN BLAZE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.1%, the actual is 65.7%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Around the school, 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 roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SUN BLAZE ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

The closest other public school is INNOVATION HIGH, roughly 1.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SUN BLAZE ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUN BLAZE ELEMENTARY has remained close to its prior level, going from 1,125 students in 2018 to 1,150 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 61% to 55%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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