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If you could change one rule at SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY, what would it be?
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Enrollment
1,015
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144008740
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY
13225 INTERNATIONAL DR, ORLANDO, FL 32821 · (407) 317-3200 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,015 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
361 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 38 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 139 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 170 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 157 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 186 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 136 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 189 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (139) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (189).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY→FREEDOM MIDDLE
Based on published attendance-zone data from ORANGE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
38.9%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.5pp since 2023
Math
34.4%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.9% | 34.4% |
| 2023-24 | 41.3% | 37.3% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY's state test result (39.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY this school | 1,015 | 35.6% | 39.9% |
| SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIAMI | 873 | 33.4% | 58.8% |
| AIR BASE K-8 CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION HOMESTEAD | 1,131 | 33.4% | 81.8% |
| NEW HORIZONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WELLINGTON | 745 | 37.9% | 55.6% |
| HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE TAMPA | 819 | 31.7% | 62.0% |
| LAKE POINTE ACADEMY CLERMONT | 985 | 41.1% | 43.3% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #1,811 of 2,136 | #143 of 157 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #2,048 of 2,149 ▼ 131 | #154 of 159 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #1,818 of 2,149 ▼ 239 | #138 of 159 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,015 | #186 of 2,267 | #12 of 168 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #1,485 of 2,077 | #137 of 159 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.5% | #1,349 of 2,108 | #112 of 159 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.6% | #1,687 of 2,188 | #105 of 162 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,015
+426 (+72%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 14.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,015 | 59 | 17.2:1 | 36% (361) |
| 2023-24 | 1,001 | 57 | 17.6:1 | 42% (422) |
| 2022-23 | 949 | 53 | 17.9:1 | 41% (389) |
| 2020-21 | 589 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 86% (506) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY.
About SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY
The public elementary school SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY is located in ORLANDO, Florida. The school has 1,015 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
The district, ORANGE, has 207,778 students enrolled across 272 schools.
The student body at SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY is 67% Hispanic. The school is also 18% White, 10% Black, and 2% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 34%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
The school's 59 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.2:1. That is in line with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Income data for the school show 36% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Test results at SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY are 23.5 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 39.9%, compared with a predicted 63.4%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Florida.
In Orange County, home to about 1,471,937 people, median household income comes to about $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY shares Orange County with 285 other public schools.
LAKE BUENA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL is about 1.8 miles from SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY ranks 9th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY had 589 students in 2020-21 and 1,015 in 2024-25, according to federal records. Those counts may cover different grade spans. The school's ratio increased from 14.7:1 to 17.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,471,937
Census ACS
Median income
$79,719
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
286
216,813 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ORANGE
- APOPKA HIGHHigh · 3,446 students
- TIMBER CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,383 students
- WINTER PARK HIGHHigh · 3,277 students
- COLONIAL HIGHHigh · 3,239 students
- WINDERMERE HIGHHigh · 3,217 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,127 students
Other schools in ORLANDO
- FLORIDA VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,331 students
- TIMBER CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,383 students
- COLONIAL HIGHHigh · 3,239 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,127 students
- LAKE NONA HIGHHigh · 2,974 students
- DR. PHILLIPS HIGHHigh · 2,964 students
Other Sunshine Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Sunshine Elementary. SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLEHIGH ACRES, FL · 1,456 students
- SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIRAMAR, FL · 426 students
- SUNSHINE ELEM.SPRINGFIELD, MO · 353 students
- Sunshine Elementary SchoolBostic, NC · 217 students
Nearby schools
- LAKE BUENA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 2,140
- WEST CREEK ELEMENTARY2.2 mi · 565
- SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY2.4 mi · 733
- HUNTERS CREEK MIDDLE3.2 mi · 1,057
- HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY3.6 mi · 749
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT HUNTERS CREEK3.8 mi · 1,501
Frequently asked questions
About SUNSHINE ELEMENTARYHow large is SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY?
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 1,015 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY serve?
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY is approximately 17.2:1 (59 FTE teachers).
How diverse is SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY?
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 18% White, 67% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY public or private?
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ORANGE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.