WATER SPRING ELEMENTARY

Set in WINTER GARDEN, Florida, WATER SPRING ELEMENTARY is an expansive elementary campus, run under ORANGE. It instructs 1,013 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so WATER SPRING ELEMENTARY sits 68% larger than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, WATER SPRING ELEMENTARY records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 32% White, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, WATER SPRING ELEMENTARY logs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WATER SPRING ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.4%; this one delivers 62.4%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. WATER SPRING ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

Nearest neighbor: WATER SPRING MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WATER SPRING ELEMENTARY at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 62.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

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