WATERFORD ELEMENTARY

As a mid-tier elementary campus in ORLANDO, Florida, WATERFORD ELEMENTARY educates 532 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within ORANGE.

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

On the student-mix side, WATERFORD ELEMENTARY logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% White, 10% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, WATERFORD ELEMENTARY shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at WATERFORD ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WATERFORD ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.1%; this one delivers 68.1%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which WATERFORD ELEMENTARY is one.

DISCOVERY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WATERFORD ELEMENTARY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 61.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. WATERFORD ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 723 (now 532). The White share of enrollment edged down from 37% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.