TANGELO PARK ELEMENTARY

TANGELO PARK ELEMENTARY is one of the small elementary-level communitys in ORLANDO, Florida, overseen by ORANGE, with 491 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

TANGELO PARK ELEMENTARY is one of 272 schools operated by ORANGE, a district that works with 207,778 students overall.

On demographics, TANGELO PARK ELEMENTARY logs that 62% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 31% Hispanic, 4% White. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 69% of students at TANGELO PARK ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, TANGELO PARK ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. TANGELO PARK ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

The closest other public school is FLORIDA VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TANGELO PARK ELEMENTARY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TANGELO PARK ELEMENTARY has fell 21%, going from 623 students in 2018 to 491 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 47% to 62% over that span.

Inside the community feed, members of the TANGELO PARK ELEMENTARY community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.