WATER SPRING MIDDLE SCHOOL

WATER SPRING MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized middle-grades school in WINTER GARDEN, Florida, operated by ORANGE. Current enrollment sits at 1,064 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so WATER SPRING MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 34% above that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, WATER SPRING MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 40% White, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Orange County's rate of about 39%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WATER SPRING MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.8%; this one delivers 67.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Orange County shows median household income runs about $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), WATER SPRING MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WATER SPRING ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WATER SPRING MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 62.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

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