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Enrollment
447
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144001386
UNION PARK ELEMENTARY
1600 N DEAN RD, ORLANDO, FL 32825 · (407) 249-6390 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL447 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
284 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 | 46 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (75).
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
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
44.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.6pp since 2023
Math
55.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.7% | 55.8% |
| 2023-24 | 43.1% | 47.7% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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 UNION PARK ELEMENTARY
UNION PARK ELEMENTARY's state test result (49.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNION PARK ELEMENTARY this school | 447 | 63.5% | 49.1% |
| SALLY RIDE ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 399 | 63.7% | 44.7% |
| DICKENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 514 | 61.3% | 39.0% |
| CHENEY ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 397 | 67.8% | 48.7% |
| CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 455 | 61.5% | 42.3% |
| CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 529 | 63.5% | 27.2% |
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 UNION PARK ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.1% | #1,375 of 2,136 | #105 of 157 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.8% | #1,296 of 2,149 ▲ 205 | #90 of 159 ▲ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #1,557 of 2,149 ▼ 74 | #118 of 159 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 447 | #1,621 of 2,267 | #127 of 168 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #465 of 2,077 | #29 of 159 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.3% | #1,360 of 2,108 | #113 of 159 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.5% | #758 of 2,188 | #48 of 162 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.5% | #821 of 1,374 | #79 of 112 |
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
447
-51 (-10%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 878
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 447 | 31 | 14.4:1 | 64% (284) |
| 2023-24 | 464 | 31 | 15.0:1 | 70% (327) |
| 2022-23 | 517 | 31 | 16.7:1 | 70% (362) |
| 2020-21 | 498 | 39 | 12.8:1 | 58% (290) |
| 2017-18 | 511 | 34 | 15.0:1 | 67% (340) |
| 2015-16 | 454 | 31 | 14.7:1 | 99% (451) |
| 2010-11 | 621 | 44 | 14.1:1 | 79% (490) |
| 2000-01 | 761 | 47 | 16.2:1 | 56% (426) |
| 1990-91 | 878 | 47 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for UNION PARK ELEMENTARY.
About UNION PARK ELEMENTARY
UNION PARK ELEMENTARY is an elementary school in ORLANDO, Florida, and it is part of ORANGE. A total of 447 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Florida is about 604 students, so this school is 26% smaller than average.
In ORANGE, 272 schools enroll a combined 207,778 students.
At UNION PARK ELEMENTARY, Hispanic students make up 68% of the student body. The next largest groups are 13% Black, 13% White, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 34 points above the 34% share among Orange County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 50% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reported 31 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 14.4:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Eligible students account for 64% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. Among public schools in Orange County, the average eligibility rate is 39%.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, UNION PARK ELEMENTARY is within a point of its prediction. Actual: 49.1%. Predicted: 49.3%.
Federal survey data for Orange County show that the median household income is $79,719, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Orange County is home to 286 public schools and about 216,813 public school students.
UNION PARK MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. The five-mile area around UNION PARK ELEMENTARY holds at least 8 other public schools. UNION PARK ELEMENTARY ranks 5th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 49.1% against a local average of 50.9%.
Locale data from NCES put UNION PARK ELEMENTARY in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment has fallen by 51 students since 2020-21, to 447. Students per teacher rose from 12.8 in 2020-21 to 14.4 in 2024-25.
Community posts for UNION PARK ELEMENTARY can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Union Park Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Union Park Elementary. UNION PARK ELEMENTARY is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Union Park Elementary SchoolAUBREY, TX · 723 students
Nearby schools
- UNION PARK MIDDLE0.4 mi · 660
- LAWTON CHILES ELEMENTARY1.4 mi · 503
- ARBOR RIDGE K-81.5 mi · 756
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT CHICKASAW TRAIL2.0 mi · 949
- ORANGE COUNTY PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER2.0 mi · 305
- UNIVERSITY HIGH2.0 mi · 2,514
Frequently asked questions
About UNION PARK ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at UNION PARK ELEMENTARY?
UNION PARK ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 447 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does UNION PARK ELEMENTARY serve?
UNION PARK ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at UNION PARK ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at UNION PARK ELEMENTARY is approximately 14.4:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at UNION PARK ELEMENTARY?
At UNION PARK ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 13% White, 68% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is UNION PARK ELEMENTARY public or private?
UNION PARK 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.