VISTA LAKES ELEMENTARY

VISTA LAKES ELEMENTARY is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in ORLANDO, Florida, overseen by ORANGE, educateing 520 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, VISTA LAKES ELEMENTARY reports that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 20% White, 9% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting VISTA LAKES ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, VISTA LAKES ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household earnings sit near $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), VISTA LAKES ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ODYSSEY MIDDLE, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, VISTA LAKES ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 31%: 757 students in 2018 compared to 520 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 58% to 63% over that span.

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