UNION PARK MIDDLE

As a compact middle school in ORLANDO, Florida, UNION PARK MIDDLE works with 660 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within ORANGE.

Within ORANGE, which oversees 272 schools and 207,778 students, UNION PARK MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, UNION PARK MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Black, 10% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, UNION PARK MIDDLE lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, UNION PARK MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.9%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -7.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. UNION PARK MIDDLE is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

The closest other public school is UNION PARK ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UNION PARK MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts UNION PARK MIDDLE at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 779 students in 2018 compared to 660 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 11% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

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